Yeah, what she said. I'm still relatively new to the whole Steemit thing, and haven't quite wrapped my head around how all of the mechanics of it work, but the main thing that jumps out at me about it is that, instead of having a few huge media outlets (with huge corporate backers) deciding what messages you hear, and which messengers get rewarded, Steemit is intellectual anarchy in action. What the readers like gets rewarded. What they don't, doesn't. And here it isn't a matter of having several cookie-cutter statist opinions to choose from (a la mainstream TV), but a basically unlimited number of opinions from anyone who wants to fling an idea out there. The people will have spoken, AND the people will have decided who was worth listening to.