You've got a valid argument there!!
But that was all just them speculating about the distant (well, distant in crypto-terms) future and I don't think they're actually working towards that as a goal.
We'll have to see where this all takes us. I'm at least a bit excited to get proper SMTs and communities on the base-layer next, instead of leaving that to a privately operated side-chain.
This is already a move towards that, I think. The new curve really means that there can only be a small community of rewarded content producers (at least as far as getting to the point where linearity begins) and this goal of Steem to be social media is set aside for some goal to be a blogging platform, which, IMHO, is a far less promising model. Do people spend more time with Blogspot or Facebook? Do people engage more by commenting on the posts of friends or on articles? Who has more power and money, Medium or Twitter?
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