Steemit's New Banking Social Order?

A new trend/order is forming that has once again deterred me from trading a chunk of my crypto into Steem. People all want Steem to rise in value, but want to do less as the same time. Makes perfect sense!

This isn't a sh*t post. That's a label people use too much when they don't agree with something.

Here's my take on the "cool" thing to do on Steemit right now:

• Delegate SP to bots.
• Promote bots under the guise they're helping people (to get more delegators to increase market dominance and increase "sales").
• Expect passive ROI by people buying votes to compete in the new bot-fueled feeds.
• Keep blogging per usual and taking from the rewards pool (avoid giving back at all costs).
• Skip upvoting anyone yourself because you've delegated everything to the "banks" and are literally unable now.
• Convince yourself and others that you're doing good for the ecosystem.
• Turn a blind eye because the profits are too attractive.

Seems like the perfect formula for sustainable success to me. Perhaps people will snap out of it to realize they're removing the humanity from Steemit, and centralizing Steem Power to mini-corporations. Furthermore, more Steem Power is being moved to a bucket where it's available only to those who pay for it via upvote bots.

Eventually people will get sick of the Steem power leaving humans who care, to be moved into a banking system where people only care about ROI. Ouch.

Bots automate what lazy people don't want to do. If you aren't going to use your Steem Power and want to grow the community, delegate or lease to a promising Steemian, not a for-profit bank. If you must delegate heavily to a bot, why not go all out and just stay logged out of Steemit?

This is worse than the last US Presidential elections. A pyrrhic victory at best.

Any thoughts? Am I being too stubborn? Should I just buy a ton of Steem and delegate it to try to take take take, while giving less and less?

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