This article is going to be the start of a multi-part series detailing how some things people are focusing upon are not issues and will be resolved within a couple years all on their own.
There is a major shift taking place on STEEM and I am not sure many are aware of the ramifications. Power is being shifted around which is making some of the areas of discussion mute. Nevertheless, people continue to focus upon the now so I figured I would explain what I see.
Part of being a technologist/futurist is to realize where things will be in 5-10 years. Of course, this is not exact and many factors come into play. That said, we can see general trends along with pace of advancement to begin to estimate what is going to occur. For this reason, a great many of the problems that are debated today will be non-issues in a decade.
On STEEM, we have the same thing. Each month I post a report about the shift in SP that is taking place. We are now seeing something amazing taking place.
I chose 
I will summarize it as such: it is an application of love.
How is this the future of STEEM and what does it have to do with current issues?
Here is the voting chart over the last month for this account.
As the voting chart above shows,
This is why I call it an application of love. It is helping to usher in the Age of Abundance.
Another one that is doing the same thing is 
Neither of these examples are platforms in the sense there is something they do other than spread upvotes for participation.
There are other applications that are doing something similar with the votes although they are platforms. I will use some that I mention recently.
All of these have very few self upvotes (under 2%).
As for some of the others:
Once again, these platforms spread the votes around to people using their platform with little self upvoting.
Take
There are 36 Whales on the STEEM blockchain right now according to 
https://steemit.com/cn/@arcange/steemit-statistics-20180831-cn
Yet here, off the top of my head, I came up with 6 accounts that have Whale voting power AND are voting content across a broad spectrum of users. This is somewhere around 8.5M SP in voting power. I am sure there are many more accounts that are doing something similar: passing a lot of votes around while voting at a much higher level because of the delegations they received.
There is another application that will be coming online in the next few months called 1UP. This is a project by 
And do not think for a second that this initiative will not seek out delegation to make the upvotes from the account even more powerful. That is one of the primary means to enrich the community.
Which brings up the final point: where do you think a lot of the delegation comes from?
Many initiatives are paying out Smart Media Tokens in exchange for delegated SP. Obviously, the ones who can take advantage of this are the larger accounts with SP. So what do you think happens when larger accounts are tying up SP in projects such as I just mentioned that upvote users on the platform? That voting power gets spread out.
One final question: what do you think will be happening when, instead of 5 applications, there are 150? Or 500? Or 1000?
Over the next couple of days I will be putting up a couple articles with numbers that bear out what I think the answer to these questions might be. Certainly, the trend is established.
Ultimately, SP is shifting via delegation from the larger accounts to applications that are upvoting a broader range of content creators. This will only expand as more applications are released on the STEEM blockchain. As it does, we will see more accounts accumulating SP and people begin to use these new apps.
Once again we see, it is all in the applications.
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