Amazing post , im happy i "WASTED" my time by reading it, you wrote here about  a thing im talking for over a year now, im happy to see im not alone!!

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I am not going to reset my autovote on you. You are doing really a good job here, instead I would ask you which redfish I should support now 😉

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Still upvoted, in recognition that I fully read your post.

And in full agreement.

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First of all, I've just recently added you to my auto-list. I did this because I want to reward your content, even in case I miss it. I still love manual curation, but auto-votes makes things a little bit easier.

That being said, I have started to think about certain aspects of greed/selfishness and peoples true beliefs and intentions with STEEM in general.

Let me explain some of it. You said this:

> *" They are the ones who really stand to benefit from this platform, but I think it can help people all around the world."*

> *"I am asking that the dolphins and above give a bigger share of their votes to small accounts who make cents on a post. Okay, so you will earn less in curation, but do you really need it?"*

So, what I've started to think about, is **why** so many people are stacking STEEM like **crazy** people...? I obviously understand that more SP equals more money, especially if and when the price of STEEM goes up.

However, whales and orcas, usually the people who're talking about how much they care and believe in STEEM... They continue to rake in STEEM with investments and whatever, because they **believe** in STEEM. They believe that STEEM will go to the moon and that we will see prices of $10, $50 and even $100 per STEEM...

But, if you have 200K+ STEEM and/or 1 or 2 million... Do you really **need** more, if you **truly** believe that the price will go up?

If you have 200,000 STEEM and the price goes up to $10. You'll have $2 **million** USD. $100 per STEEM and you'll have $20 **million** USD...

Honestly speaking, I shouldn't say that I've started to doubt these users **real** intentions and beliefs, but it sure has made me somewhat skeptical.

200,000 STEEM is just an example though. Say 500K instead. It doesn't really matter... I personally, believe in STEEM, but I cannot afford to invest thousands of dollars. I am in a position where I will need to **cash out** in the coming months... But people who **never** cash out and **only** power up... Do they **really** need to make as much as possible from their 200K+ STEEM stake they have today, if they **truly** believe that STEEM **will** moon?

Sounds like **greed** to me, and I will **never** allow greed to control me or my actions. I find it disgusting.

How about an update that makes anyone above 250K SP (or whatever) **lose** 10% of their stake monthly if they **don't** spread their wealth? -Should give us a **tremendous** growth in general. :D

That's one immense truth, I wish I had more time to reactivate @cyclefeed to go back into distributing rewards to smaller users. Unfortunatelly during the 'crazy' most of them disappeared.

I am a plankton, @steevc , even in my present status, I do believe that supporting the "poor" or those redfish and minnows are very important to in strengthening the blockchain itself, remember our economic class during college years.

And as for me, I am supporting a small community of steemians in my province, tru automatic upvote and a few steempower delegation.

I truly believe that, tru communities, the steem blockchain can have the strongest foundation for future developments.

Its the poor who will always support the foundational development of the country.

Giving sustenance to this lower class of people, give them more hope and inspiration to persevere more, and tru their later development will end up minnows or dolphins/orcas in the future.

A model of a true economy.

If I can get more support for my community through steempower deleagation, my upvote power will increase more, they will be more motivated to post and interact to the blockchain everyday.

![my black and white.jpg](https://ipfs.busy.org/ipfs/QmdXdjBQ7qPmw3LdTqxoi7y5JvgXWx1XK6JYa4QU3j8jtr)

Gracias por un aporte tan sustancial para la comunidad, muy interesante en realidad.

Excellent post sir, and hit the nail on the head.

I'm powering down after 2 years, because this place is fundamentally flawed. 
When you look at all the interesting people that have come and gone, it saddens me.
Greed was  built into code, and it was not by accident. 

I'm powering down some ( I only have small amount), and I'll keep some - because while I think there is no future for steem(it) as a platform for social media earnings - as advertised - I do think the technology offers something of great value and - from a purely selfish perspective - I want to get a return for all the hours I've put into this place.

I thank the platform for giving me the confidence to write off platform.(something I've never really done, or thought too much about, before).

The positive message you offer is commendable, but,( in my opinion) is pissing into the wind.
The very best of luck with it, though!

At what point does one go from plankton to redfish?

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Loved your post and resteemed for more visibility

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This is so heartwarming 
The reasons I continue to run up that hill

I am a nobody here in terms of SP
But just to let you know I do try and upvote the small guys and really cannot remember the last time I upvoted myself 
 I remember when I started and I had nothing 
If it wasn’t for the generous, kind and far sighted ......

True words and a very, very good posts.

With a good/better distribution steem will attract more people using it and the community base can grow.

Furthermore to get some votes - also without getting much money - is encouraging

I still manually upvoted this post, because you still need to grow yourself to help support more people.

I do agree there needs to be a greater voting spread, specifically to encourage the smallest and newest accounts to stick around. But it’s always going to be a slow process unless they start investing in Steem themselves to kick start the whole process. And it’s a good time still with prices so low, the benefits to gain are not just in adding curation.

Right now I think there is still a lot being developed for Steem, how it grows and build value will be a range of sources including gaming which has huge potential based on the existing successes like @steemmonsters

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Still voting this - do you have a list of recommended red fish people? I used to do that a lot but over 70% of them got lost very early - maybe we can create a pool of promising newbies that also commit to stay here for a while?

Because of people like you, I choose to remain here ,am new here. 
Thanks for this..

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I have resteem this post, I implore everyone to do so till it gets to the right audience. I know despite the truth being dish out many will refuse to help and the like, it's your steem power do it how you like but if you can't be part of someone success story never been a reason why they cry. 

I could feel the sincerity and passion put in creating this post. How i wish my dreams on steemit could come to reality so I can join forces together and make here a better place. 

I have seen many retire from their works to give steemit their 100% attention because they want to earn she after the bear market everything becomes devastating for them due to the fact that post payout could not cover for their bills. The mindset of many is to become super rich through this platform forgetting that many also depends on it to earn a little. 

I have seen over time that those who need the earning most earn little while those who need less earn more because of their sp they hold. 

Am happy, I have benefited from you in the 250 minnows league by @paulag project, it has been a great privileged. Many life depends on this platform to earn daily substances. Thanks

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This is awesome and something that I have wished Dolphins would do for quite some time now.  The more of us that can get to that level quicker the more smaller accounts we can support.  I hope to be a Dolphin by November of this year.  We will see though...