This is the whole value proposition of the steem blockchain: it a monetizing layer on content. It is not perfect mostly because we have the firehose effect going on and not enough granularity in content discovery. But with the coming SMT and community feature, there will be multiple hierarchy being able to reward users and therefore spread the wealth to a much larger userbase. If we don't market steem has such, there is really nothing special about this blockchain that has mass appeal.

But still, everything that has to do with creative endeavour, has to deal with the 80/20 rule. We can bitch and moan about it but that rule can't be bent or broken for very long...no algorithm can defeat it.