Another voice from the community that people need to hear. I want to promote this message and get it rewarded. 100% of the total STEEM, SP and SBD will be transferred to @charlie777pt after payout.
As I have already commented Steemit has the same exact state of the normal economy out the blockchain.
"1% of users have 99% of Steem
99% of users have 1% of Steem"
When there is manipulation in the discussion of collective solutions, by self-interest people or groups that fight for Power then it can't be called consensus, but an imposition of a hierarchical structure.
So 1% is stealing the will of thousands to benefit 99% to themselves, but they are destroying their golden egg chicken.
Consensus exists only in equalitarian groups, where everybody has the same rights to express their will by influence and be influenced by all the others.
Consensus is a general agreement on a proposition to act and change the destiny of all the members of a community.
1% of people make Code as Law for all the members of a community, instead of people generating consensus about the Law and get Justice.
(Justice meaning Equality).
When one group controls who gets rewarded, and who can have their rewards taken away, that's not an egalitarian/equal community where the community decides to reward people "organically". One group is calling the shots. The numbers charlie uses are an analogy to Steemit, not an exact number. So don't get hooked on the numbers and ignorantly dismiss the message... Thanks.
In other social media sites, people have equal rights to evaluate content and promote it's visibility through likes/upvotes. But not in Steemit. Only certain people have that power, because they are "rich".
This is about equal rights to affect the valuation of content, just like real social networking sites operate. Want to know what the result is when there is a concentration of power to determine how the community operates to value content? Read about the failure of Digg when concentration of power develops in a community. It's not good.
Steemit started with a concentration of power, and people have pointed out the flaws in this months ago. Yet the system doesn't change, and problems keep coming up because those in power don't want to let go. We don't have consensus of upvotes to value content, we have imposition of power to reward certain posts or remove rewards from certain posts. Influence to allocate rewards is centralized in few hands, not the community. This is not equal rights in the community for the community to reward others. The top posts get rewarded based on the power players who decide.
A just and fair system means that equal rights exist. When people don't have equal rights, there is an unjust system.