I'm in the middle of watching a video of Dan talk about his development of BTS, then Steem and now EOS, he does seem to be learning from his mistakes.
Someone recently. described Steem as 'socialism for the rich' - which sounds about right, AND it's a worse form of socialism for the rich than the bail-outs in 2008 - it takes fewer people here to agree to use the system to reward mainly themselves no matter how little they do/ how much shit they cause.
You could look at the proposed changes like this - reside over a shit system that encourages abuse, the top 100 get stinking rich why the platform value declines - this leads to slightly less for the rich - they tweak it again so as to kill of the emerging middle class and earn themselves a bit more.
It's system collapse isn't it?
Unless we've already had that and we're the few weirdos clinging on irrationally?
I'll be keeping an eye on Voice. Especially now that I've realised I did stake my EOS successfully - I don't have much, but I really like the concept of actually 'owning' part of the RAM.
Hopefully The Voice will allow for new account creation with names of less or more than 12 letters, otherwise it probably won't go anywhere just because of that - people tend to like their names.
"Socialism for the rich" is a hilarious oxymoron. But it's true of the "bad socialism" we have seen in the last century, and Steem is no different.
Lol, the system collapsed a long time ago, in 2017. As for the proposed changes, it's just lipstick-on-a-pig. Whether that makes the pig look better, you decide, but still remains a pig. What we need is a complete overhaul from scratch, and that's what Voice is doing.
Nothing wrong being weirdos, or should I say... divergent from the norm. Just realise that if you make a platform for a certain niche, it'll remain a niche platform.
While I'm clinging on, I don't see that as irrational, since I'm not here for tokens, but for the market that tokenization might bring censorship resistance. Personally, I see potential to be rid of some of the plague of profiteers if Steem is wrung dry of substantial value by those profiteers and abandoned by them. I expect there will be an aftermath of such a collapse. We'll see how things work out.