I love the optimism and rationals of @taskmaster4450. It is easy to be lost on finding the faults of STEEM such as e.g. a whale voting 8 times a day on @haejin's post, or people abusing bot votes. We have to look into big picture here. Biggest portion of the reward pool is going to the creators. It is infinitely better than writing an wonderful blog in medium or posting a beautiful picture on flickr and earn nothing. One has to understand no system is error-less and 100% anti-abuse protected. Steemit is still in beta, whales, devs, witnesses, bot owners and the community all are fighting and looking for better solutions-- that is the beauty of the decentralized platform and infinitely better than bankster run centralized world.