I am not hating on #steemit or #steem but rather offering constructive criticism for steem's betterment...
Case and point - the social media meme that got $800 the other day.
Yes, it was a meme about steemit making fun of facebook.
Yes it was funny and facebook deserves the hate.
Yes, Leonardo Dicaprio looks cool in his yacht in the movie WOLF OF WALL STREET.
But did the person who posted that meme, which took all of 20 seconds, deserve more than the unknown users on here who have likely posted, probably multiple times, about cancer cures, free tesla energy devices, or the immortal quantum nature of our soul - and gotten $1, $o.56. or $0.00 as a reward??? (LONG QUESTION so consider re-reading it.)
In my opinion, both steemit and the psychological programming of mass consciousness is BROKEN or not *yet* sufficient... and in need of further improvisation. #money needs to go to those who actively try to improve society. (the world is FULL of problems needing fixing...) Money does not need to go to the most popular people, but the most innovative and creative people. The most popular people have an easy time selling and getting money as it is. It is our duty to begin rewarding the genius nerds who end world hunger and not the ego driven drama queens who do nothing but entertain and distract everybody...
#1 Problem - STEEMIT algorithms don't reward the true value creators 100% efficiently, currently... SOLUTION = likely an easily fixable group of codes created via some critical thinking by the developers.
Please correct me if I am wrong - users with more steempower get more quickly upvoted to the top and with larger payouts per upvote, regardless of the quality of their content... OR SO IT SEEMS. Please comment to clarify if I misunderstand...
It seems those who have money to invest in steem get the most upvotes. Because of the way society has developed for the past thousand or so years, the money is generally held not by the most innovative, but by the most popular or the strongest. (think kings, bankers, owners of OLD oil vs new energy methods, politicians, celebrities, athletes) So the people investing in steem may not actually be revolutionary scientists or developers but just OLD money looking to make MORE. money.
I am sure many of steemit's investors ARE worthy, but many are not. Bill gates and steve jobs are recent anomalies, examples of worthy individuals. (Some will disagree on Gates, as he has bad vibes when it comes to his views on population control - a topic for another time.) Anomalies or exceptions to the norm always exist but are not common. This needs to be addressed with the new blockchain technology and logical nature of A.I.
STEEMIT DEVELOPERS : work on improving the model. We believe you can do it!
#2 Problem - the STUPIDITY of man: emotions and illogical reasonings will generally "donald trump" the more logical choices based on factual evidence backed reasonings...
SOLUTION = not impossible, but not easy to fix; this will take a LOT of effort on the part of anyone and everyone who writes, speaks, or does videos... and anyone who is good at talking, selling, or is popular - but also smart enough to see the truth and the problems the world has...
Why is it that people are quick to share STUPID funny and not SMART funny, or SMART in general? Sometimes, especially for us intel geeks, being smart feels like a DISADVANTAGE in this predominantly stupid society. We were all bullied in schools. Think about what 90% of society is like! People want to share short, funny, mindless posts just to make their friends laugh and feel like they have created "SOCIAL VALUE" by making their friends laugh. This is the psychological trend of the times right now, and it needs to be changed.
Read the book green eggs and ham - Dr. Seuss was a genius. Someone can *not* want something, (having not even tried it yet) but if you pester and pester and pester them to try it, sacrificing your own emotional need not to be rejected but accepted in the process; and if you pester someone enough until they try something, IF they find out they like it, (which usually they will) they will THANK you for being steadfast and persistent. If enough of us SELL humanity on the benefits and coolness of being SMART and providing REAL VALUE, even if it does not work at first... trust that eventually people will think cancer cures, tesla free energy devices, and other WORLD FREEING technologies are *COOL*, HIP, interesting, and worthy of being shared and upvoted with their friends. ANYTHING can be sold, its all based on repeat advertising. Billion dollar advertising agencies know this, it's why you've seen the Progressive Auto Lady probably 100,000 times by now!
Together, lets "Green eggs and ham" the saving of the world with blockchain, cancer curing, A.I. and tesla free energy technology!!! STEEMIT, you will either work with us, or you will fall into the pile of other social media sites who have no real purpose towards ACTIVELY healing mother earth.
In the mean time, most of us have a LOT of mental growing up to do. I know I have work to do, and so do you.
Is this post too controversial to you?
Forgive me, but without controversy, there is no change.
To build a house, one must cut down a few trees and bust up a few rocks.
To make an omelet, you must break a few #eggs.
GREEN eggs I might add. ;)
GODSPEED to the human race. BE SMART!
~ King Tyler Durden VVS
King of Kings,
Warrior of light, here to save mother earth,
and herald to the coming Golden Age of Man.