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RE: To Vote Up or to Not Vote Up? Confronting Truth About Our Human Mind Behind Decision-Making on Steemit – A Behavioural Economics Approach
I fully agree with your response, but I don't know how to think about it. If money attracts money Steemit is not achieving its full potential of generating valuable information. It's more about expectations based on reputation and previous post popularity.
In the end people might to do it for the money but I don't know whether that should be the goal. I believe it should be taken for granted but that's pretty difficult. I don't know whether that would ever change!:P
I don't use social networks, but I came here because I was researching cryptocurrencies and wanted to become the owner of one. This platform made me an owner of 30$ of ETH and 30$ of BTC, along with currently 100$ of STEEM POWER. Idk why I signed but I believe main motivation was money promise. Although I'm doing my best to help and bring community values I think the main motivation is still money.
I believe that greed is one of the core parts of humans evolution and that made human evolve to this stage. Book Selfish gene explains evolution and we have selfishness it ourselves along with a drive to survive. We try to be more spiritual but our nature makes us fight for ourselves.
Furthermore, I believe that this social platform as everything today is just showing a state at which humanity is, since it also reflects same "negative" values as everything else does.
Good thing is that people are bringing good values in the world but they will be as hard to get as they are always since society is all about popularity as you mentioned above and not about being best we can. Great things and values are hard to find and always will be in a way hidden.