Presciceley the benefits of a stake based system. Steem wouldn't be successful if there wasn't that heigherarchy. At the same time, I think you are right about people who come from other platforms seeing $0.01 next to their post and $10s or $100s next to posts they wouldn't deem valuable, and seeing that as a reflection of how this community value their work, which is why I'm slightly more excited about communities than I am about SMTs.

With manual curation (especially by whales and orcas) on the low, I think vote buying has become a necessity to keep some new users engaged, but sadly some people do tend to overestimate the value of their own work (entitlement, as you said) haha

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