As you can see in the image above, this user earns $217.45 just for upvoting his own comment.

This is completely unbalanced and no new users will be able to come even close to this amount of steem power.

And the issue is, this person gains even more steem power as time passes without having to do anything for it.

I think steemit is really awesome and I would hate to see greed destroy it. This system needs to be more balanced. As it currently stands it is designed as a rather steep pyramid, where users who join only months of the release are already too late to have any chance at being at least somehow equal with the founders/extremely early adopters.

This leads to the following problems:

only founders/extremely early adopters really control the content

only founders/extremely early adopters can really profit from curating

founders/extremely early adopters profit unreasonably from new rewards

Possible solutions:

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