[DLive] Is Voting Socialism Possible? by dnews

dlive · @dnews · Mar 15 '18

$20.55

[DLive] Is Voting Socialism Possible?

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So I've seen chatter in various chat rooms about making the voting system more equal. I want to preface this by saying that any vote from a whale, whether it's a platform whale or just a normal (is that a thing?) whale, or any kind of whale is appreciated by me. For me, I see it as icing on the cake. Of course we would all love votes from whales. Who wouldn't?

Some people have suggested making voting equal across the board. I for one have taken a close look at the DLive curation and feel it's fair. I see some videos getting a specific % and others getting a lower or higher based on various criteria that is privy only to the DLive curation team (and I believe this shall remain so). In this video, I discuss why voting socialism will not work. I cite various examples in our society where socialism and 100% equality, while great in theory, does not work in the real world.

We cannot pay someone who takes out garbage, the same we pay the Head of Cardiology at a Chidren's Hospital. Anymore than being able to pay a high level athlete with someone who plays the same sport in grade 8. It's just not possible. In the same way, creators cannot all be paid equal because there are differences in quality, appeal, aesthetics, sound quality, video quality, content value, etc, etc.

These are my views, but I'd love to hear yours. Let me know in the comments below what you think! Thanks for watching :)

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@techwizardry · Mar 15 '18

$1.03

<blockquote>"We cannot pay someone who takes out garbage, the same we pay the Head of Cardiology at a Chidren's Hospital."</blockquote>

I would argue that society should value the service of the garbage collector  more than the one provided by the professional athlete. 

The poisonous consumerism of the West, and professional sports, go hand in hand!

👍 gridcoinman

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@dnews · Mar 15 '18

Unfortunately society decides how valuable a service is.  Not everyone can throw a baseball 100 miles an hour with pin point accuracy.  Most people can put garbage in a bag and put it in a bin.  And while I'm not devaluing anyone doing manual labour or any kind of work like that (I've cleaned tables in the past) It's not about what society values as much as what people deem is rare.  The more rare the skill/talent/trait the more society is willing to pay for it.

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@bethwheatcraft · Mar 15 '18

$0.03

I agree @techwizardry.

I can see what you are saying @dnews, but ultimately how value is decided is kind of bullocks. What has to happen is to take the service away and see how many people decide it is valuable all of a sudden. See how important a 25 million dollar baseball player is when their trash is overflowing into the street and it reeks for miles...the problem is that people have become complacent with the way things are. There are ways to change that, and striking is a very effective one. If the people that are deemed unpayable and unworthy in society decided to quit for a bit, things would have to change.

Society could live forever without going to a baseball game, but only a few weeks without the basic essentials that most people provide.

This isn't to say that talented people don't deserve special recognition and such, but when I have seen sports players and celebrities go on strike, it gives me diabetes. It's effective though, they usually get what they want. So my advice is, if people want to make more doing what they do, then fight for it.

I am going to be broadcasting on the 28th from a giant nationwide teacher rally. My siblings are all teachers and are WOEFULLY underpaid. Sure, they can't throw a 100 mph fastball (well actually my brother could in college before he injured his shoulder, but that's besides the point.) but the world stops if teachers walk out. Parents no longer have anywhere to dump their kids when they go to their jobs, kids no longer have anyone to teach them.

I don't think socialism works, but what we have on Steemit is a plutocracy, and that has never worked in real life either. It will surely satisfy those that are maintaining their wealth and success, and it will surely draw new people in, like the California Gold Rush, but people will go packing as quickly as they came, disenchanted at the loss or opportunity they thought might happen.

I do think that @dlive is handling the plutocracy much more fairly than the other apps, though, the decentralized nature of Steemit has still been lost in having to invest faith into the very few that have wealth.

(And I know the knee jerk response is to "grow your own following" but that is just not possible. There is not enough accumulated wealth among the minnows to even come close to the upvotes that these whales are able to give. So just as a few other Dtubers have said, until ad revenue becomes a thing, we are solely reliant on mega upvotes, as most people would not have much without them!)

👍 techwizardry

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@edwinbeutti · Mar 15 '18

It is amazing to see you as well on DLive I think that it is important for us to support both of our video sharing platforms! Go DTube and DLive!

👍 dnews

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@dnews · Mar 15 '18

Yeah enjoy it here :) I'll still be making my DTube videos.  Checking out what's happening here and so far it's a great crowd :) great team :)

👍 edwinbeutti

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@edwinbeutti · Mar 15 '18

Ohh awesome, yeah DLive is lovley, btw if you dont mind, could you send me your Discord tag, I need it so I can add you on discord or you could send me the inventation for your group there

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@azhari07 · Mar 15 '18

Wow your post is fery nice bro

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@jailani08 · Mar 15 '18

Nice your post

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@alphasteem · Mar 15 '18

Time to up my game! Haha
And I agree it's not possible. Socialism looks good on paper but it doesn't work when its practiced.

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@dnews · Mar 16 '18

Up up and away!

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@anderssinho · Mar 16 '18

I think that socialism can work, but not communism. We here in Sweden have had a socialistic society which led to that we had one of the most economically equal societies.

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@alphasteem · Mar 16 '18

Yes, but Sweeden has a small population, and a lot of hard workers contributing...Once you get to 400 million like in the US it wouldn't be able to sustain itself. I don't believe so.

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