One of the biggest problems I see around Steemit, isn't the creators around here (even though I know there are those trying to flush through BS content), but it's the Whale themselves.
The Whales are like a form of Communist dictatorship, which is understandable since most hipster types are not much different than dictators like Mao Tse Tung, or Vladimir Lenin who combined killed 100's of millions of people under a guise of a system that promised a safe haven for average folk.
A better system for something like Steemit (which I DO think has incredible potential) is to implement A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) systems and rid it from something like a dictatorship like "Whales". Rid of the jobs, and give A.I. control of it over the humans who are flawed.
This will take some time, but ultimately over time A.I. will gather all data and present not only truthful data, but be also able to determine on the instant if content is legit or not. It will then act as the Whales and reward people their true worth in the content they present based on calculations - not biased by some hipster ideology of their obvious current biased ideologies on what's "good" content or not.
I know there's a lot of fear mongering about A.I., but I completely welcome it as it would negate these attributes/flaws of the Whales and put them back into the pool of actually having to produce decent content rather than how Steemit currently operates where the Whales will post about how their fart smells good today gaining thousands of Steem dollars all the while a genius in Japan writes about some great content not even making a penny.
The creators of Steemit would make more money on this experiment/creation. THIS would propel you beyond Facebook. Billionaires would drop FB/Twitter and seek to work with you because this gives incentives to all peoples. This would drive up the attempt to make decent content. Isn't this the drive of Steemit ultimately? To have a place where creative/intelligent folks create content, but they would feel safe that their work isn't thrown under the rug after hours of hard work, like Steemit is now? Think about it...
I present this idea, not as an insult to any Whales (well a little since I hardly see decent content produced by Whales that isn't biased off of some of the points I've brought up), but to help this great experiment become perfected as it should.
Just my two cents... or nothing at all - hahah!
I'm sure there are questions to be asked here as to how this could work. I'd be happy to give my opinion on how. I have ideas as to how it'll work beyond, Steemit.
--- peace --- Johnny CryptoKale