Because we have a toxic community. fueled by unfairness and ass-kissing tradition.

But stating that we need to onboard just because we don't have enough posts to vote on is retarded.

As retarded as considering anyone who isn't in the ass kissers whitelist as a subhuman and not worthy of the mercy of his/her excellency.

I strongly believe in marketing and onboarding. But convincing people one by one is primitive.

Here is another thing for you, I won't spend 300 hours to create an article (aka value) to make steem more visible and pricy, just so Mr big belly could extract it because he has access to an ass kisser club, this is slavery.

Either we remove the reward pool or completely revamp its functioning, and since SMTs will go the same path, they will face the same problem. Who creates value and who extracts it.

Thanks,