RE: Isn't trending awesome?
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Well we have been attacking people who build businesses and people who do things that would normally lead to success, like networking and promotion.
We act like it is bad to seek Steem, so... We have burn post trending.
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Preach!!!!!!!
Conflating profit and prophecy, mammon and metaphysics, social interaction and economic predation, depends on primacy of social intercourse and Steem hasn't put the horse before the cart.
Society has far more valuable aspects and features than it's economy that many folks here do treat and relate to one another, but the structure of rewards isn't suited to promoting that interaction nominally. Instead whales have designed the rewards system to reward them, with nods to society only as necessary to prevent it's downfall.
These nods aren't sufficient, and the blooming society that would float the value of stakes were it blooming is instead dwindling.
Bots were a symptom of that ill aimed economic focus, not the underlying problem. If communities are nominally able to craft rewards structures using SMTs, socially focused speech may be suitably supported in one or some that arise, and provide examples for the rest of us to follow.
Clearly, monetizing our interactions as crassly as is enabled in the current paradigm, is insufficient to promote healthy society, and thus to increase the value of Steem nominally to outcompete other investments. We can be sure that society itself isn't lacking value to produce such economic returns, because that's all that ever has.
Steem seems to be suffering from central planning. The free market of communities that may soon eventuate may resolve that obstacle, if communities are empowered to implement rewards mechanisms that do promote higher social values that drive economic gains.