Good to catch up with you latest offerings. Another though-provoking post and I agree it is not the systems at fault but the nature of the individual or species. I need to be careful here because the 'individual can mean many things.
There is an inherent feeling of lack within this species, this may be as a result of seeing ourselves as separate and isolated, as a result an inherent (most often unseen) sense of lack drives our actions.
Yet any action that submits to this sense of insufficiency is, by its nature, counter-productive, In that is perpetuates that very feeling. Its like the bucket with a holes in it - It can never be filled.
If this way of being is at the heart of the steemit issue, or indeed any other, it is destined to follow the same path.
Awareness is the key... but perhaps that's for another post :)
Thanks D