Perfectly said. I wanted to write pretty much similar article, because I totally agree with you. Unfortunately we live on planet where we are so dependent on money, so most of people are chasing only money. Like in everyday life, it's same on Steemit. Numbers are no.1, quality who cares...in most of the cases of course. Most of people look at Steemit as chance for money grabbing, not realizing true power Steemit can have. I wonder how much people with huge SP ever try to find good under valuated content. In my opinion very few.

In 99% of cases trending page is not reflection of 'proof of brain'. Most of post there are because of payed voting bots. That is 'proof of wallet' and nothing else.

In my opinion core of the problem is we allow ourselves to be manipulated into believing money chasing is the most important thing in life. Manipulators created system where you need to have money, so people participating in that system are pushed into state where they will do anything to acquire money. That is happening on Steemit also.

Only true change on Steemit goes beyond Steemit. It's about transforming our perception from 'more money for me' to heart perspective which only can lead to true change. I know it can sound like some 'new age' mambo jumbo, but it is the truth. We can introduce this and that with next Steemit hardfork, but if we don't change from inside nothing will change.