Powerful. Understand, I'm still a relative noob, to me it has that appearance.

The thing is, a lot of the time people making 200$ had to put in 150-200$ even to get that... Under the speculation that they would gain a profit by the week. That doesn't work on a downward trend.

The biggest part of that inequality is how much weighting steem power creates.

The only purpose voting has at this stage is the gamble that you got something at the right time and was about to get 1000$ in votes 2 minutes later... They call it DUST. lmao...

Anyway, I agree in about every sense... What I intended was, I don't care if someone has 2000 people reading their content and overall get regular readers getting a larger slice than something I post that might get noticed by a small handful of people scrolling on the new posts page.

It is ridiculous that the main motivation is to get enough SP to where a vote counts for more than 0. Then to get enough steem to pay for bots to up vote stuff. People literally put money in JUST TO SELL VOTES.

The other problem is the weekly payout. That's kinda like telling authors that "your book gets its first payout and then it's our advertising to get more people writing books". At best it's designed to generate a flow of mediocre content like a tabloid magazine.

If the motivation is to produce good content, then the payouts should reflect the blogs / videos / articles that garner legitimate interest over time.

Ex: make an article, the first week 5 people see and comment... Then it turns out that it's useful, and 6 months later that article hits trending numbers naturally. You have to hope that everyone subscribe to your new stuff...