I agree with some of what you have said, but still I don't subscribe to all those pay to play idiots ideas of "the way it is". If the platform is truly going to grow, there has to be a happy medium between FIAT money invested and time spent growing the platform. What is more likely going to cause someone to tell there friends about something. How they made 5 or 10 dollars without investing a thing, by commenting on some other users posts? Or how they invested a huge amount of FIAT and spend the days up voting their own post's, for a so-so return? If you do not think that only up voting your own posts doesn't cannibalize the platform, you got something else coming . What is the most valuable resource on steem??? Its content.