Steemit provides a direct way for users to incentivize posters and to dictate who gets paid at the end of the day. With the current de-monetization of posters on YouTube we are seeing a market response to the problem, DTube will soon takeover. Steemit's implementation of blockchain technology allows us to know and store exactly the amount of money on our wallet and never be told by a 'Facebook' type gatekeeper that we do not own what is ours. Now that @dan is perfecting his other blockchain implementations bitshares and eos we will fully decentralize our economy from the social platforming to trading with one another on, bitshares, an exchange. No longer will the technocratic elites be allowed to filter our media or freeze our assets when we try to withdraw $2,000. Down with the gatekeepers.