RE: What's Going Wrong With Steemit
Hey @filotasriza3, thank you very much for this post. I think that you are right in some/many/all of your points. Since my experience with Steemit only goes back to February 2018, I don't have the same experience than you do. So you might see some things better than me.
And to be honest: The bigger Steemit grows the more people who think about making money fast will come.
Question is: Can we blame them for this idea? I am pretty sure that in the beginning there was an idea to maybe make a better platform than all the others are. But I think: every time it goes about the possibility to make money, you will always have people who try to use (or misuse) the system for their own purposes. If I think more about it: It's not only in cases of the possibility to make money.
For example: I am a german tax advisor. Very often people come to me and they want to know about possibilities to save taxes. Sometimes this wish so bit that they don't care about other impacts. If they are founding additional companies in other countries only because one of their friends did so too, for example. They only see the tax rate in the target country being lower than in their home country. So they may save let's say about 1,000 $ of taxes. On the other hand side they forget that they pay additional amounts for two local companies (with bookkeeping, tax returns and balance sheets in both countries). This may cost 1,500 $ per year. But: they are still lucky because they save 1,000 $ taxes every year. If you take the example like this you can clearly see that their approach doesn't make sense from a financial point of view. But they can tell that they save taxes. Goal reached! The rest doesn't matter in a first step.
And now coming back to Steemit: It is a system to get STEEM. People tell their friends about it. And to be successful, they need to get STEEM within a short time. Afterwards they can tell their friends how successful they are. And people are always creative in thinking about reaching a goal (doesn't need to be a financial goal) without investing resources (time, money). In other words: People are lazy!
And as long as there are systems that support laziness, people will find ways to do so. If you look in the literature you will find lots of examples.
Sorry, this text became much longer than I thought in the beginning. I should have made a separate posting, I think.
Taxation is theft
@taxguy in our country what @trumpman says is the one and only truth :P
I'm just curious: which country is this?
The number 1 country in taxing matters named Greece :p
thanks for the long comment. it's like a fetish i really enjoy long comments, it shows me that people read my post or at least a part of it. To me still it comes down to Greed. If you checked at first i spoke about Greed very generally to show that this isn't just part of steemit but part of our everyday lives. People are way too greedy meaning they want fame, power, money and they want it fast. Laziness is another trait we share and the combo with Greed takes it in a whole other level.
Also i get your tax example, in societies we got law for these type of people although laws don't always apply. At the same time here in steemit it is supposed that there no laws and that is the key factor but we can actually minimize and cast aside those try to take advantage of others and try to use means that will undermine the platform and therefore the community.
The ''idea'' or an idea behind steemit is supposed to be a social media that is way different than Facebook, Instagram etc etc. The monetize factor and the no censorship is a key factor but if we bring over or come by themselves, the same people that made those other communities such a bad example of a community and don't do anything we gonna have the same result