I haven't written about my views on the platform, for quite some time. While I was writing the article about a Free Society - How strong is the case, I was thinking about a real problem with the Steemit platform. Don't get me wrong, I love the platform and all the efforts which the developers are taking to improve the platform. I actually want to highlight even further that I believe 
What is happening on Steemit today?
There are many posts and articles written about the issues of really good posts, disappearing into a big black hole. Let's face it, when you publish an article, it disappears within minutes, from the top of the new list, into the black hole :) There are only two ways currently in existence, of getting your post out of this hole, and the weight is heavily leaning towards one side of the two options. Option 2 is when you have enough followers, which I believe is not the case in 95% if not 99% of cases at the moment. Should all of your followers up vote your posts and most of them are heavy hitters, you might be pulled out of the hole. Maybe to page 25 or 30 of the trending pages, where most people are currently spending their time. So Option 2 is not really workable at the moment.
Option 1 is the one which we all fight for while writing content. When you receive a whale vote, you will probably end up on page 10, 9 or even 8 of the trending list. From here on forward it is all about a second and third whale vote, which will take you up to page 5 or even page 4 of the trending pages. From here it is all about the topic you write on and the quality of your work. The system is working great, but very much dependant on the Whale vote.
What about the middle class
We currently have a situation very similar than to what is happening in most African countries. We have the Super Rich, and of the poor. We do not have enough of the bigger accounts. Yes, some accounts is starting to showing a glimmer of becoming the middle class, but … and this is a huge but , there is not enough of these middle class users on the platform.
Most importantly I do not believe these users are being created quickly enough. Yes the wealth is definitely flowing downwards, as per 
So here is the bottom line - We do not have a middle class on Steemit and we are not in the position to create this level of users fast enough. In my opinion the middle class should be a combination of high hitting dolphins and tuna's - or whatever you want to call them for that matter,
Tuna's
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Tuna's in my opinion, should be in the position to contribute around 20 - 50 SBD depending on their vests. This will mean if you have 6 Tuna votes (50 X 6 = $300), you are out of the big black hole and up to at least page 5 or 6 on the trending list. Now this is where the stuff really starts happening. If you now get a whale vote, which will be easier, as you have a better chance of being noticed higher up the trending pages. If you add the 1 Whale vote to the article, and you are on page 3.
Dolphins
The same conversation of the Tuna's can be used for dolphins. Higher end Dolphins should have at least add 10 - 20 SBD per vote and baby dolphins should at least add 5 - 10 SBD to the accumulative pot for the article. Now we have a much wider audience looking for the good articles.
Let's do the math
4 X Tunas + 5 X High End Dolphin + 100 baby dolphins + your following = (6 X 50) + (5 X 20) + (100 X 10) + (100 X 0,05) = $1 405 and all of a sudden we have 6 + 5 + 100 + 100 = 211. In the example, we empowered 211 users to decided if a post should trend. The masses of the votes will then follow. Currently if 1 whale doesn't see you, you do not have much of a chance to get out of the hole.
I believe we all know this and most of us also believe that this will be default happen through time, as the eco-system maturity develops.
Statement - In total we are currently 79 280 users on the platform. From this only 4675 people were active yesterday and 13 807 people were active in the last 7 days. In my mind all 79 280 (Minus the scammers) of us are early adopters of the platform. Surely we can find good enough content writers and ambassadors within this group of people to empower as the middle class. I believe the middle class will be created through time, but I am not sure that it will happen quickly enough.
Question - If we are losing good content creators from the platform, as a result of their content not being seen. How do we create a middle class faster?
Your comments would be appreciated .
