It all comes back to ideology and beliefs. When I make a decent argument out of this, I'm usually met with "life doesn't work that way", but this is always based on an individuals personal experience and understand of life. "Human nature blah blah blah" as if we can really understand human nature from our limited perspective and limited history. People like to use history to understand the present and predict the future, but we often fail to see that our assumptions are also created by that history, some of which may not serve us.

We are moving in the right direction here, because at the moment, our ideas about money and "wealth" are being challenged which can't be a bad thing. We've also gathered a huge bunch of RELATIVELY open minded people in one place and (perhaps thanks to monetary incentives but whatever), they're all being relatively civil (with a few exceptions). I think we have a chance to create something great. Whether it manifests here or elsewhere is not really important, but if we can reach a greater consensus within our communities on steemit, it may have a chance to fix some of it's issues.

I personally think we will always run into these problems as long as we are attached to our capitalistic tendancies but I'm willing to listen to anyone who is willing to listen.

Don't throw in the towel!