RE: Can Your Witness Vote Really Make a Difference? See for yourself.

I'm forever in a quest to find the best and easiest ways to explain technical stuff to people that doesn't cause their eyes to glaze over.

With a system like Facebook and Twitter, ultimate power is handed to Zuck or Jack and the executives and functionaries who end up working there and self selecting people like themselves into prominent roles. At first their full of technical people who built the systems and eventually these transition to the kinds of people more comfortable dealing with people than technology (modians vs mundians as my friend dubbed it).

Steem Witnesses are not quite analogous but they move the centralised control of these other systems out to a decentralised and more democratic system. It's not perfect (and lord knows neither is democracy) but it sure beats the way in which all the other big networks have been captured by the hard-left.

Tell me if any of that is even remotely true!

I dare say that the figures that are stated in the post here confirm your general point of view.

As per our Steem Whitepaper, the witnesses are = governance.

We choose our governance which in effect gives us Steemians the power to have our say in the future of our Steem.

I am very BIAS, I truly see the potential that Steem has to offer this world of ours, with over 80% of the worlds population living on under $10 a day, we literally can change so many lives out there.

Plus, set a precedence that has never to date been seen in any of the "governance" models to date.

Steem has incredible potential and a lot of it depends on the vision and goals and not just the "here and now" as what too many out there seem to be stuck on.

STEEM ON!