RE: "THE SYSTEM IS NOT FAIR AND MAYBE NEVER BE..."
This is a stake-based system indeed. Is that unfair? How? Should we all have equal stake regardless of anything? The pioneers of Steem have the greatest stake. They are the ones that mined their STEEM. That group includes the shareholders of Steemit Inc and most witnesses. They created the platform in total uncertainty of ever getting paid. To expect those with a large stake to just give without regard to their own profits is too much. This whole project could easily have come to absolutely nothing and resulted only in software engineering work wasted or lots of wear and tear on computers mining STEEM for no purpose. A lot of us are here looking at sub dollar level rewards per day in the expectation that the value of STEEM might go up again with the growth and development of the platform.
And, by the way, impact is a function of your relationships or who you know. Who cares how good your poetry is if you have not developed a readership.
Well, some are of the opinion that this is a platform that rewards quality contents, and they do not earn as much as some steemians with a huge stake who do not provide that same level of quality they give this platform. But like you rightly pointed out, these said individuals paved the way for many of us and if they are making more than the average steemian then it is not necessary a bad thing. Rather than complain I would rather search for alternatives and things that work here and build. Steem is not a perfect system but a workable one, and I can live with that.
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