Is Steemit Cutthroat Capitalist or an unbiased social platform for all?
I love steem ecosystem a lot because of the unending opportunities especially loads of top applications like Dtube, Dlive, Utopia, busy.org, Dmania, Dsound and Steemit et al. Moreover, steemit is a platform that provides equal opportunity for all members to making money blogging what he/she loves –without investing money? Unlike Facebook that excels on exploiting its members data´s and selling to the highest bidders.
Conversely, however, steemit is currently looking like a capitalist platform that promotes and rewards the rich (those with high steem power ) , those with whales contacts and or ability to buy votes or delegate steem power –however is it all bad? Here are some few points:
Power to censor: Many members accuse steemit of being systematic censored by those who have the steem power to flag /down vote those they disagree with. However that is the way steemit is made to be : you can chose to down vote /flag (call it punish) those you disagree with and it is good to use such power against spammers (follow for follow, vote for vote- copy and paste spamm comments) scammers, plagiarists and low content creators. Therefore, you can call it controlled censorship against bad guys , especially those that produce less quality posts - however quality is subjective.
Inequality / Human nature: The gap between the rich and the broke is quite huge here and has always been like that in capitalist countries (Greed which is human nature is an issues -especially from those who rape the reward pool through spammy mass posts / comments - upvoting all ). However, is there any platform that does not reward its investors more? Even in platforms examples, Facebook, reddit , linkedin et al –members do not earn a cent only their investors or shareholders are the big earners. Therefore I am not sure that steemit inc can ever solve the growing gap between whales and minnows, except we community members –especially those with large steem power take action by reserving some steem power in order to upvote quality posts from minnows and other less privileged members. Importantly , to succeed here, your success lies on the point below:
Steem Power: Steem power is the secret to succeeding here because if you have enough steem power, you will not depend on bots upvotes and hoping for people to upvote your posts. Moreover, you gain more in passive income : interest payments , curation reward, author rewards and you can even delegate power and get daily return-however is it not the capitalism we are preaching against? The truthful answer is no!!! Because without those investors that take risks in buying steem and powering up, our steem will be worthless –therefore, they have right to a juicy return on investment (ROI).
Therefore, steemit might be a capitalist platform to many, however its success lies on people investing big money in steem power and getting something back in return.
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Steemit is the best opportunity for a small person to get an empowerment so that they can help themselves and it is hard at the start but once you kept the ball rolling it will take off. We just have to share here what we love and it will all be easy.
Very good point, I agree with you. You are one of the success story...keep steeming to more success
I would add that it is empowering to people in countries that do not allow this sort of freedom, economically , literarily, or otherwise.
What a fish!
Capitalist!!!
Steemit is indeed a fair playing ground for all if you know how to play it smart. In life, there are always losers and winners and if you want it the easy way, then invest in steem power -then you can chill and enjoy.
its been looking like Steemit is a ponzi scheme more and more everyday that it grows up. It appears to us like a child with mischievious teenage issues right now... but it sure has the characters of being a con artist soon.. I wonder how greedy we can all get on this platform... so far, in my opinion, this platform is no different than all the bullshit centralized social media platforms other than the fact that now... we have many whales fucking shit up... versus one fucking central whale figure... cant wait to see how we fuck this one up...
Very good point Ronja...however the strong and powerful should look at for the weak sometimes through upvotes...thanks for your comment
Well i for one registered with steem in September 2017, i was able to make what i have today in my estimated steem value, it may be small but i am proud of steem and it's community. Of note is that i did not invest a penny, but i was able to send some tokens to my Ether and Bitcoin wallets. And by just being lazy, i got rewarded.
Facebook and Co on the other hand are something else, i registered with Facebook since 2008, i had use my little brain creating posts that hundreds of people liked over the years, what for? NOTHING!!!!!!!!
You said a lot of things that i am guilty of no doubt, and you also said so many things that would propel me to greater Heights in this community.
May God bless you more for quality content sir. I salute 🙋👋✋
Welcome my dear...am sure that you will like my older posts tooo. I wish you more success
You do need to invest in Steem to see any kind of return. I have personally invested but am still seeing no return. It wont happen right away, you need to be patient and it takes time. Also don't expect to get rich here, same thing - not going to happen if your new.
I would prefer the recognition of my writing. I am someone who is creating original material and maybe its crap, I don't know. That's for others to decide.
Good point, steem power, smart blogging and patience are keys to succeeding here
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You make some valid points about steem ecosystem.
points like what buddy..pls elaborate
Why?
What a post!💪🏾Oh I love your way of writing and explaining. I see it the same like you. People forget that these people with much steempower invested in it. Or had the luck to be a first mover and seeing the potential. Anyway a risk is involved and I agree that these people should get their return.
On the other hand I believe that people without much money could be successful with making friends, being social and more.
I think you are a good example or am I wrong?
Welcome my dear buddy...yes you are correct and you are a big success here...Keep steeming to more success
I think it's pretty fair, but that's just my opinion... It is perfectly possible to make it here on Steemit without any investment. If you produce great content on a regular basis, it will get noticed and upvoted eventually. Then it's up to you to choose how to spend those earnings.
You can @daan but it depends how patient you are. I'm not so patient so have decided to invest some ££ into Steem. Don't you find it disheartening when time and time again your posts are not even viewed, never mind voted up?
It's disheartening, but you can fix that without additional investment even. I've recently joined a free curation group (steem engine) and you really get a lot more interest in your posts that way. When you post in their discord, you have to upvote and comment on 2 other posts.
That said, I'm also buying more SP, it does go kinda slow otherwise.
Good call one buying more SP, its getting cheaper and may go down further still (though I wish otherwise). I think I tried SteemEngine some time ago, is it these guys who take a vote from you everyday?
I have joined their Discord channel. I'm fine upvoting other's content just as long as its worthy.
Patience is indeed the key however building contacts and SP helps even faster