Original content is important to steem. This is how Google will index us. If we just duplicate the web, Google will start filtering out steem results, which means we slowly die.

These greedy buggers who keep copying pieces of the internet and reposting it to earn a few cents, are doing it at the expense of hurting steem in the short term.

We, as a community, should be flagging these posts (downvote) in the top right corner. If they are clearly junk copy/paste content, they should not be rewarded for it.

Steem is still so new. I understand greed comes first, and intelligent decisions come second.

Over time, you will see that intelligent decisions come first, and greed, well, will still be there. People will learn how quality unique content actually makes them a lot more money than cut/paste posts.

Do the math: You can make 50,000 posts on steem it by cutting pasting for 1 cent, to earn $500

Or you can make 1 single post, with your brain, and writing something unique and interesting that gets popular, and still earn that $500

These other people would rather spam the steem network with junk, than use their brain. What can we really say about that?