You reveal the fundamental difference between the societies expressed by Big Tech and Steem social media. Steem was created to enable engagement and discourse, however undermined by the crass profiteering of the ninjaminers, while the advertising model expressed by Big Tech just attracts followers to monetize.

Steem is able to potentiate individual expression, while being coopted by whales to monetize their stakes, and Big Tech is intended to monetize content, while being infested with individuals seeking to express themselves. It is the communities, such as you are intrinsic to in the farming, decentralized production, and freedom of expression aspects of society you are interested in, that may separate the chaff from the wheat and enable Steem to potentiate social media platforms no longer coopted by stake weighting and the corrupt influence of mere money.

Our values will be more and more reflected by the communites we support, because more and more communities are arising to reflect those values. You and I don't value money above all else, and in some of those communities, those that do will not be welcome. We'll soon see if such communities are even possible using Steem soon, as HF21 is designed to maximize stake weighting far more than it is presently on Steem social media.

Let's hope the communities that reflect our more substantial values aren prevented from prospering by such corruption by mere financial considerations.