Unpopular Shower Thought: Steem will never become mainstream and popular because it only features people on Steem talking about Steem to Steem. Even /news doesn't have real news - only more Steem articles.
https://steemit.com/trending/news
Currenly Steem is just a circle jerk.
I think to vote in elections everyone should be required to be home owners or land owners, otherwise everyone will just vote for socialism.
New content will arrive, but first we must invest some time in understanding and improving the system for content creation encouragement.
Good article