Thanks for this interesting post...
Although I love Steemit and its logic as a great improvement, in the long run I am more interested in an abundance based economy which seem to need a complete reboot of our mindset... What about an empathy / common good based reward system? Attention can and will always be driven by lots of aspects that have zero value to the common good of society. Because attention is a big illusion victim tricked by the senses and our mind. For decades advertisers have been using all the trics to draw attetion to meaningless stuff... If you carefully look the same is already visible here in Steemit. I am convinced this what we witness here is just the beginning of decentralized reward based networking... exciting times...