RE: Helsing: All whales requested | Discussion
So much fun to watch Steemit develop from a blog spot to a community and now a budding government.
We're having a problem with emerging oligarchs and so you propose a 1 percent tax (temporary as all taxes are initially claimed to be) on the 1 percent to insure just distribution to the workers. This is very noble and a wonderful idea and probably would work for quite awhile and make Steemit a much more contributor-friendly platform.
My worry is that it's a slippery slope. Who is the "decider" and who decides who the decider will be? Define "quality" for me. We'd need some form of "constitution" that laid out the new rules of conduct. It becomes a power structure with a money pool and something like that always attracts those who would elevate themselves at the expense of others. I fear it would simply become a reflection of the world at large: a virtual "nation" following the pattern of the most powerful political regimes that occupy our blue planet.
Worth a try, though. It'd be fun to see where it eventually led.
I agree with you, but on the current path it is inevitable anyway as people are acting on learned behaviours of a broken system. This however has a chance to possibly retrain and rehabilitate and if it fails and those who abuse do, the pool dries up for all as no one is bound to Steem as they are to their imaginary nations and government dictators.It really is ours to screw up and if we let those who don't care for the future rule the roost, it won't take long.
...it does sound like fun though, doesn't it :D