Point is duly noted my good man! I should have taken my own advice and looked at the other side of the coin!
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Point is duly noted my good man! I should have taken my own advice and looked at the other side of the coin!
I agree with @carlosdaniel , just because the focus is on the fast growth countries, doesn't mean that there won't be opportunity for those of us in good ol' America. Hopefully, the rising tide lifts all boats and fish and we all benefit from more users being on Steemit.
Granted, those from those other countries will gain quicker followers and such, just by the nature of how people flock to those of their own culture.
I think you may have to check with @carlosdaniel, but I took that mention of reaching 3rd world countries with my words as a bit of a tongue in cheek comment. I base that off of the inclusion of Venezuela. They happen to be literally starving so I don't think their main concern is a random blogger. The point of this post is to highlight the fact that Steemit seems to be purposefully looking to fill it's platform with content at a low price via the work of the poorest peoples on earth. Not a good thing! I don't understand why no one ever reacted to that at the time it was disclosed. Why didn't anyone notice what was going on in that release?
Because nobody likes to read the fine print.
But, seriously, if they could just add a simple translation tool, it might actually work out well for everyone.
I went the extra mile and actually translated an Arabic comment to English on one of my posts with Google tranlate. Then I had to translate my reply, too, but if they could bake that in it would be awesome!
Also, we will all have to admit, that due to issues in Asia, they will adopt crypto currency faster, which is why Steem probably is focusing on them as well.
We would be assuming that is their unstated motive when their published reasoning is that it's more cost effective to the rewards pool if they get content at a low price. I think it's kind of hard to get around that when it's plainly stated in the release.
Well, when people here are trying to get paid $15/hr to take burger orders, having someone who makes $15/week on a good week, write blog posts is a no brainer. Can't blame them for the focus in order to get more content.
Let's take that example you just made to illustrate another aspect. Steemit is already suffering from some pretty good spamming with very low quality content. Wouldn't it stand to reason that the steemit's future may crash if they are able to process new users even faster and all of these users are in what we would consider extreme poverty? If we are supposedly too well off to produce cost effective content, what do they expect to achieve in a 3rd world country? True, I'm sure someone would make worthwhile content, but the mass majority would post nonstop nothing-burgers waiting for whatever they could get. Maybe I'm just too priveleged to see the motive in those markets other than taking advantage of low rewards.
I'm guessing is, they really don't want quality content.
But, if they can make the right bots, they can possibly enforce it.