will the value of the blockchain come from?

Applications like Steemmonsters need to have lots of SP in order to get their application to run on Steem. The idea that people have to buy steem and power it up before being able to use an app is something that is unlikely to scale very well. Right now people who buy SP don't do it for others to get rich off it but for themselves to benefit from it. The way to do so right now is pretty much with an entire facade which is the 'social media blogging platfrom'. While it can be used in a proper way, the system simply doesn't incentivize this. Otherwise, there would be no difference between current system with the reward pool upvotes and a system where upvotes more directly come from people's pockets.