Steps to success on steemit.
- Get in early and sit on a huge share of steem
- Use bots to further your economic advantage
- Dominate the trending and hot pages with huge upvote power
And some tips for the little accounts
- Happen to be born in a country that teaches the native languages of the whales
- Have enough economic security in life to afford you the free time to post well thought-out content
- Be able to afford an internet-connected device in the first place
For real though your tips are good for those who happen to have the ability to act on them, I just feel bad for the luck of the draw so many have in life.
Having the sufficient capital to employ the tools that are almost necessary on this site to even start to feel successful as a writer is dubious in countries with very small GDPs per capita.
I upvoted you because I think there's not enough recognition on this platform of the structural conditions which benefit the rich more than the poor. (I/ we may now be universally hated for pointing this out!)
NB - there is a relatively small movement on here (the minnow support project and all those associated with it) who, broadly speaking, recongise this fact and actively try to make steemit a more equal place, so there is hope!
You missed out: be an early adopter.
P.S. I am quite rich, I just also happen to be a sociologist interested in structural constraints.
No sane whale focused on cashing out in a decent timeframe would want to damage their ownership share, and no one really makes money critiquing the system so no one at any level really talks about it in length. Yes, there is a growing movement to address these issues, but they're a drop in the bucket for now as content viewing is dictated by existing wealth. Speaking of hopes of wealth growing, I'm not an expert in the UK housing market but the housing market in general is in a precarious position worldwide as central banks seek to tamper inflation fears by upping rates and cutting buying programs, which will put many things like corporate debt, housing, loan creation in general at risk.
And this platform was never designed with equality in mind of course!
On housing, gotta have somewhere to live, paying my damned mortgage off is my 2018 no. 1 goal.