This is a 'decline payout' postThe more accounts SteemIt gets, the lower the chances of getting potential payout. Or, put differently, Steem rewards willl become more scarse as the amount of competitors grow. And that will make it difficult to keep solidarity alive in the community.
It is a typical competion based setup. Where scaresity is being created, on purpose, to create a belief of value. The best moment to join in such a system is right from the start. Because competition is low there is enough to get for every account. And the overall mood is coherent happy. Even a feeling of a sharing community that does care for each other. But then more accounts are being created. The word got out that Steem is the new gold. So in came the diggers and out came the frustrations.
Throw free bread on the street and the hungry will come. And who would blame them? But, what if that free bread could also be sold? Then it would not only attract those in need, but also those in greed. And the more there would come, the higher the price to be payed. If the amount of bread shared stayed the same. Where are the times when endless amounts of bread were handed out for free?
Competition is always biased
Those who are in advantage that fits a competition will gain profit in that system. SteemIt functions like that. Competition can never be fair because it is biased towards those who fit the system setup best. If a system was fair, then it would not contain competition in the first place. Because everybody would end up at the same level.
So, competition is unfair by definition. It will divide any human community as they will be busy trying to survive. And that's when humans tend to be unable to use their free thoughts. The power of the mind gets traded in for the struggle to survive.
There is an elephant in the room
So it seems that competing for things that appear to be scarse are very effective for dividing humanity as a whole. But then this would mean there is an outcome pre determend. And that has to become apparant at some point.
The standard procedure seems to be in any competition system that is has a gain bias. Those who created a competition system made the rules, designed the scarsity game. And therefore there must be an elephant in the room to be seen by those who know and understand.
Colaboration, Free Open Source and Voluntary work
Collaboration on a voluntary basis does create a better world much faster, like the free open source community has proven. At some level it is a kind of absurd to see it being used to fuel competition based systems. But maybe that will become obsolete when humanity as a whole grows up. It will be the day that we all surrender to peace, I guess.
In the meantime we need to find ways to survive in this divide and conquer based competition system. And maybe that can be done best if those who understand this unite as one.
Maybe you don't understand why this is yet another decline payout post. But recent events in my personal life reminded me to do so.
Peace on earth, and all well being.
PS I know the last part might not be like you are used too... ;-)
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