Thank you for this thoughtful post! This whole conversation has, paradoxically perhaps, renewed my interest in Steemit and Steem block chain as it relates to social order. Your questions seem quite to the point & also got me to thinking: How fair can we expect the system be to the group at large when control of the blockchain is delegated to such a small minority?

BTW (and I do not mean to nitpick), the meme you quoted is paraphrasing Martin Niemoller, a German Lutheran Pastor during WW2. The original quote:

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/martin-niemoeller-first-they-came-for-the-socialists