Have you guys seen "The Beach"?
It's pretty much about an idealistic group of system-dropouts, that try to create a "perfect community" of everybody sharing and caring. It works fine until some day somebody fucks it up and it's all gone.
Hasn't the idea of democracy started the same way than the idea of steemit? And what have we (humans) done with it within a short time?
Another movie eplaining my point is "The Gods Must Be Crazy". It's about an african tribe that lives peaceful for themselves like hundreds of years before. Until one day, an empty Coca Cola bottle drops out of the sky (from an airplane) and the whole tribe suddenly starts fighting for that bottle. It is inside of us, no matter how long it has been sleeping.
I wish to come to another conclusion, but it seems that in the bigger picture we are just that virus, Agent Smith talks about in Matrix.
Sorry :)