Let's assume Steem is now just a means of making money. A thought experiment: what would you do here if personal blog posts were banned?

Call me a spammer, but I feel energized by this challenge. I spent this weekend thinking about what kind of easy-to-produce content people would want to read. It's rather self-centered to expect to be paid for random ramblings about life, the universe and everything, isn't it?

Maybe something better WILL come along, but I personally feel that if we don’t try our best here, the same problems will eventually follow us, or we will run into some new, equally debilitating problems. In order to counter the abuse at steemit, many are putting their faith in new platforms that have less freedoms.

Good point! Many proposed anti-spam solutions, like limiting the number of accounts per person or going back to an exponential reward distribution, are worse than the problem.