I was doing a little browsing and saw David Graeber has a new book, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, coming out in a few days (you see that ?). If you haven't read Graeber's essay, On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs: A Work Rant, I highly recommend it. I assume the book will expand the thesis with more evidence and examples. The main takeaway for me from his essay was the following:
"If 1% of the population controls most of the disposable wealth, what we call ‘the market’ reflects what they think is useful or important, not anybody else."
You can see the same problems exist in the STEEM economy as the traditional economy. Why do I get orders of magnitude higher rewards from utopian submissions than any of my other posts? I'm not getting more votes, it's not inherently more valuable to people. It's because the utopian account controls a much larger fraction of the STEEM economy. In this case it aligns with my interests, but all too often that is not the case, and we thus get bullshit jobs.