Fair and balanced post. Is it "wrong", for example, for someone with some social power in the outside world to comment on social issues? To "push" politics in a particular direction? To essentially spend some of their social capital to accomplish something they want?

Voting for yourself is a like a little mini pay out. It doesn't make someone else appreciative and therefore more likely to vote for your post in return in the future. It doesn't create bonds between other users or add to your steem power. It just is a way of slowly cashing out.

If I understand it correctly. But I am a newbie.....