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RE: The Peter Principle, Ortega y Gasset and the Self-Determination of Steemit

in #steemit8 years ago

Your analysis is-- sadly-- spot on.

About a month ago, I decided to give this place a try because it looked like it had promise, at least "on paper." I'm a writer, blogger and content creator... the rewards and the whole "alt. economy" and cryptocurrency thing was an interesting and nice fringe benefit.

I would suspect a fair number of the so-called Whales are really good at blockchain and they are probably really good developers, too. What they know about running a company and building community remains to be seen... for me, there's an inherent dichotomy at work, namely that the blockchain structure is all about decentralization (APART-ness) which community is all about TOGETHER-ness. It's a nifty idea to wrap a social platform around a blockchain structure... but how does one execute that?

As for quality original content... it seems a lot of people (myself included) are somewhat sitting on the fence, as far as recommending this to others. I know a dozen people whose "alternative" views would make this a perfect fit, and they could bring their thousands of followers with... but I feel hesitant to stake my reputation on recommending (or pitching) something that seems a bit dodgy.

Anyway, welcome to Steemit!

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Well said, many feel that way for sure. It would be high time to get some of that community on here.

If we can actually act out in a "decentralized" platform. I can see the appeal, but for my time on here, things have went from bad to worse :|, sure they were great, but then we got a boom and a bust, everybody had their dreams shattered and most left. And we have things trailing off until about now.

So unless there is a change in pattern, I'm not sure how long authors will go on getting some of that inflation for their daily creativity.

And curators and readers that get 0.001% of the rewards because they have nothing to stake, it seems a bit of a let down, no community, no connections, no decentralization, well what is the point :D