After my steemit rant yesterday, I have been looking around some articles - 
It still feels like I'm holding a candle in very large room, and my knowledge is the light of the candle – ie, I am still mostly in the dark.
That being said, there were a few conclusions I drew from looking at the very brainy, number crunching people, on steemit.
( I do not belong to that club.)
Firstly, the dynamics of steemit do not appear to have a healthy future, in the way I see it.
More people joining (at a slower rate), more upvoting (bots), less comments per post.
Less money per post.
Now, I'm very much in the 'quality content, reap the rewards' camp – but I am not naïve and know this does not really correlate in the world of steemit.
This post-
https://steemit.com/discussion/@nnnarvaez/the-miners-of-steemit-and-the-ethical-use-of-votes
got me thinking about WHY this platform maybe doomed, -as a rewards for content site, without a radical restructure.
Bots make money ( I presume, I don't even know the technical side). Small amounts, but the math is the math.
(This account above, by upvoting his own comment/post, is pulling in quite a few dollars.)
Disparity of wealth, globally, well might be the downfall of this platform.
Let me clarify exactly what I mean, using myself as part of the example.
IF I made 12-15 dollars a day from steemit, -writing articles and replying to comments – (In my situation, in asia) I would be considerably more wealthy. - 12 dollars a day- in this economy - would make a big difference!
OK, the majority of users at the moment are in US, where 12 dollars isn't much, but where I am in the world, for many many people, 12 dollars is 2 days food - for the entire family.
On the assumption some young people can make a bot, and glean 10 dollars a day from it - it is going to happen. Period.
When it makes the difference of a full stomach or not -ethics and morals will not win out, over hunger -no matter how much you want it to be different.
Honestly?-
I want to create good posts, engage in discussions on other peoples articles, and make my 10/15 dollars.
Honestly – if I could make my 10/15 dollars a day by gaming the system (with knowledge I already possess) I would.
Ethics be screwed.
I would still continue writing - don't get me wrong – this is a new, exciting, interesting thing for me. The first one that has engaged in me in good long while – I'm in it for the long haul, I hope.
But it is not the same outlook for others, and who just want to make enough just to live- I.e. most of the population of the world – the US (and western europe) are not the population centers, globally.
So - if this is the case- and more and more poorer countries see the opportunities of steemit, to glean a few dollars each day, where does that leave steemit, as a platform? ( with its current setup).
I envisage less and less quality, more mining bots, less and less real contributors, and eventually a desert, that has been turned into a crtypto currency bot mining machine....
For steemit to continue as the platform it was sold on, it would mean stringent parameters for voting for content.
(duration of post, coherency of post , minimum words in comments to be eligible to vote for article, etc – I'm not a techy)
I'm still trying to stuff my cardboard bot I made, into the disk drive – its not working very well so far...
Am I missing something blatantly obvious ? -that makes this future different from the one I see?
I am seeing it from a human behavior perspective.
Images not mine.