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RE: Thoughts on Steem's complicated Politics & Witnesses
I would generalize more to "How can your idea appeal to someone who can take action upon it?" Part of the problem around here is too many hypothetical solutions that depend on the witnesses to fix things.
No argument from me, but the proposed solution... meaning... the ideas that someone like you or I could put forth have to be wrapped in political candy.
Lets say that you have an idea to fix self upvoting (not that i think you even want to, or recognize it as an issue, just for an example) the only way you could push this forth, is if you find a way to make the proposition, the idea, also be beneficial to the political weight of a witness or a group of witnesses. If you can't then its as good as DOA.
This is to say, that if witnesses don't represent our interests, if we cant make these sound arguments to them, if we can't reach them with ideas that will also be beneficial to them politically... then we must as community elect other ones.
True, true. And if you want to "solve" some perceived problem that's in the Steem code that's the only way to go about it. Apart from some very small things I've not seen a solution on that scale that actually makes the slightest bit of sense, although as you point out it's the politics that matter, not so much the practicality.
But there are lots of things that we can make better by approaching them from within the system as well, and those don't necessarily take witnesses. I wish more people were interested in thinking on that level.
I saw your conversation with kevin, I happen to lean towards your view, but I also know that its only applicable if somehow, someway we are able to create a strong middle class.
This will require a change in culture, a mentality trickle down sort of speak. Because if not many accounts adopt the long term vision, you and I are swimming against a current with very little allies.