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This post hosts all the questions and answers posted in Musing.io

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Self-sustaining community effort? Good luck with that.

A lot of people are only write blog posts on Steemit, but they don't care about the contents of others.

I only upvote others (I don't do self-upvotes) since 2018.03.20, but most of my upvotes nowadays are comes from Musing, Sm-voter (free upvote bot for Steem Monsters posts), Busy (free automatic upvote bot for using Busy.org and the "busy" tag), Minnowsupport (free upvote bot).

I rarely receive real, human comments under my posts.

There are a lot of similar people to me. Their posts are basically ignored. So much for the community effort. Not to mention the thousands of people, who are left (or leaving) Steemit. I currently (nowadays) have 929 followers, but most of them are inactive nowadays. They left Steemit long (months) ago.

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Self-sustaining community effort? Good luck with that.

Hope so. We don't need a lot of names to be alive. We just need people that care enough.

I rarely receive real, human comments under my posts.

It's natural and that's how real and valued engagement is to the platform. Engagement is more important than the upvotes one gets because it's all empty victory if nobody bothers to comment on your work after having so many accounts upvote it.

So much for the community effort.

It's a given. But these people would not understand how simple engagement on strangers can affect their routine on the platform. I haven't been active in the platform due to real life drama but when I was, I used to be dropping several comments on curation spree. They do return the favor back and most don't but I get a few followers and that's good enough for me.

I delegated to steem-ua which adds my ranking whenever I have new followers, in exchange, the upvote weights on the program gets higher for me. They don't need to engage with me but their follows help me for a long time.

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Very very nice cars, except the Scion, I don't really like the look of it, it feels bulky. But the other ones, even thought they are old school cars, they are nice. But you have very good choices for many occasions right there.

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The Scion is like driving a toaster. 🤣🤣🤣

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Haha. That car also reminds me of the Kia Soul, and electric car. I love electric cars. But not that one.

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I don't live in Nigeria, so I don't know how the government set up is working in actuality, but the framework for the best governance the world has ever seen is there:

Executive branch—President

Legislative branch—a National Assembly compromised of a House and Senate

Judicial branch—Supreme Court

A Constitution, which becomes the ultimate law of the land

Compromising a constitutional republic, rather than a democracy

A separation of powers, with checks and balances, and more than one party.

There are other things that get thrown into the mix, and other voices to account for, but that seems to be the gist of the Nigerian federal governance.

For all intents and purposes, it was modeled after the federal government of the United States.

Which means that the pieces are there for the best governance man has known throughout history. Unfortunately, that does make it flawless, nor does it necessarily incentivize the people in positions of power to use the system as it was intended. Instead of a separation of power, or decentralization, there are many who want to concentrate it wherever they are, for their own benefit.

So, as I think of it now, governance is only as good as the people who are elected to fill the respective positions, which means good people need to run, and voters need to somehow discern who those folks are. By good, I mean that they understand how the government is intended to function, and that they are content with the level of power they are given, and that their purpose is serve their constituents, and not serve their own self-interests.

If you have a bunch of humble, selfless people running around, there's bound to be more good coming out than bad. Mistakes are made, but they are learned from and a better way is established.

Centralization of power more times than not leads to bad governance. Consolidation of powers into one person or body, particularly a body of people who believe a certain way, or are willing to be coerced into a certain way of thinking, is not good for those who are outside of that body.

The trick is, keeping that balance of decentralized powers.

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