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RE: The Future of Steemit
The problem is, the only communication that helps is communicating with whales that listen to try to stop this. I could gather together 10,000 people like myself and convince them all to give up all profit they can make and spend their lives flagging abusers all day (I couldn't actually even get close to doing this do this) and our collective downvotes could knock $100 off the rewards on one of haejins four posts. Even then, he's just the beginning. At least he isn't actual spam like most of what the bid bots upvote. Conflict management doesn't work very well when there are power differentials that are in severe excess of what you're likely to ever encounter in the real world.
You are right, this is a laboratory for what is going on Inc the wider world of fiat money. Very interesting game: how to keep people with power from being assholes!
The only way to become a person with power is to be an ASSHOLE. Nice, ethical people always lose. Read machaveli work.
I'd like to point out that the inverse of your example is also true. @haejin's rewards don't matter to minnows. Media payout is $.02, and @haejin is taking, at worst, 5% of the rewards pool.
He's impacting $.02 by 5%.
5% of nothing is.. carry the zero... ummm.... nothing. Still nothing.
It doesn't matter one bit to minnows which whales are taking 99% of the rewards.
No matter what, 50k minnows share 1% of rewards.