Today in reward pool history 1 in 3 rewards went to the top ten voters. 31.93% to be accurate.
Total: 13,950.63sbd to 484 authors.
.0075% of the authors got 32% of the rewards.
I'd like to think that we could spread that out a little bit, except that 5 are vote sellers raping the reward pool, 3 are apps, and 1 is a gang, they are unlikely to vote outside their respective boxes.
Ten votes took 5.15% of the rewards available for 64k active users.
And again, 9 of those are unlikely to broaden their voting base.
64,671 active accounts in the last 24 hours and we got 10 accounts taking 1 of every 3 sbd rewarded in the last 12 hours, smdh.
Is it any wonder that we have a bad reputation?
It isn't undeserved.
How can we ever hope to attract the masses when they watch less than 50 accounts get the majority of the rewards?
I'm not asking much, ya'll can still vote the trending page to hundreds of dollars, but can you leave just a little to excite the small fry?
Maybe spread the attention around a little?
How do you expect to excite new users when the same users get all the love?
Day after day after day.
Why would anybody join the same game here that they get at work?
As long as the top keeps sucking the majority to themselves why would the small fry continue to contribute?
It isn't like stinc, et al, can threaten them with starvation, or life under a bridge, like the crapitalusts can in the broader world.
Think about that the next time you give out $100 votes.
You are cutting your own throat.
The people getting those votes are unlikely to buy into the coin.
Why would they? They are getting them for free.
Why would the small fry use steem as a currency while it rewards only the select few at the expense of inflation's dilution of their held stake?
Were we to chum the waters with 1000's of $10 posts we will then see some excitement from the masses.
Until then it's probably a good idea to keep building fences to keep the hungry masses out.
Have a perfectly peaceful day.
Keep working, stop paying. No war, but the class war!!