What is Steem doing? What are we doing with Steem? Are we achieving something meaningful for society? Are we using Steem to make the world better? Or are we just trying to move money around and get some of that money ourselves?
Vitalik Buterin, founder of Ethereum, tweeted about this focus on the blockchin and cryptocurrency community:
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It's an important purpose to think about. I've stated my goal to come to Steem, was to try to use it to change the world for the better. That's why I have mostly posted on matters that can help to change our conditions. Much of that is bringing awareness to the problems in order to possibly and potentially change the situation afterwards.
Some people don't appreciate that work and the content put out. Some people have disliked/hated me for being successful on Steem by doing it originally in 2016/2017, and flagged me to bring me down.
We need to ask ourselves what Vitalik is mentioning: what are we actually doing? Are we just trying to get and move money around? Or are we actually doing something that can achieve something meaningful for society, or make society better?
All the bidbots just help people make more money by doing nothing other than selling their votes while others pay them for it. It caters to the greedy mindsets of just trying to make money. It's not about advertising, because in advertising you don't get paid back for paying someone to advertise for you.
Buying and selling votes has made the original platform a joke, where many people no longer vote to reward content they like, or receive votes and rewards because others like their content. The social-content valuation system has been fractured, and it makes Steem look like a joke from the outside.
Greed has usurped the platform, where making money becomes the motivating purpose. A purpose of trying to achieve something meaningful for society, or make it better, is perverted by the former motivation from greed which corrupts this platform.
We have more exploitation now. Before bidbots, things weren't perfect, but they were better, because more of the Steem Power was being given to content on some basis of merit, rather than simply being bought with no valuation of the content itself.
Thank you for your time and attention. Peace.
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