I spend a day on a painting which I post on steemit, and some guy just copy-pastes an image from google search. We both get paid equally - where's the fun in that?
Steemit is broken by design. You cannot have income equality and outstanding content in the same platform. In a system where everyone gets to circle jerk each other for money, only think that matters is how fast you can do it.
That's true of every free market, though, so I don't see a problem here. Justin Bieber is not the best musician in the world, for example.
Hah, was just thinking of JB in connection to the world-off-Steemit-being-no-better!
I mean, how is it this kid has best-selling books (autobiographies, no less) while major poets starve?
But, there you have it... as philosopher Diogenes said: we must change the value of the currency