Well from what I hear bloggers are being paid. All of us 'new users' love the stories of the big whale and see a potential sustainable life with work we actually enjoy.
All the users under the spell, the users that are now 'reachable' through the steem platform, is what gives steem owners (and whales, are they the same thing??) the power they can exploit through businesses and other wealthy people that want to sell their products, or agendas... for money (or bitcoin??). We can all buy steem (power?), can we all make a profit from blogging?
Wow this is such a sick methaphor for how capitalism manifests in our society. Everybody is under the spell of money, and money is incredibly dis-evenly distributed. Yet, we all keep contributing (hiya!).
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