Nothing about Dawn is socialist in nature. What is rewarded on our platform is greatness, which is difficult to achieve. We reward greatness weather or not people are willing to say publicly that a thing is great, you see, and that is the advantage of simply paying out by traffic: Lots of people like lots of stuff they don't want to admit to liking, publicly, forever on a blockchain.
Furthermore, if many people read an article is that not an indication of its high utility to society? If no-- then why are so many reading that article if they don't find it to be useful?
As for fees for moving tokens, I tend to agree with you. Not certain how our policies surrouning that will look yet, however. I'll let you know as soon as we are >75% certain.
RE: This post will prove the key problems with steem: API, Stake-Weighted Voting, and "Propaganda Machine Echo Chamber"