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RE: Can Blockchain Technologies End Wage-Slavery?

in #blockchain8 years ago

It's certainly interesting to speculate... it remains a very young technology, so we get to witness how it plays out.

I already see Steemit making a tangible difference in people's lives... whereas they may be isolated examples, there are nonetheless real examples of people's lives changing. Whether that's scalable and implementable on a global scale remains to be seen.

Seems to me that the biggest crisis we face is really an outgrowth of wage slavery: The gradual erosion of hope. If you work, bust your butt... and realize that all you can ever hope to accomplish is to "run in place" you'll start to lose hope. Maybe what blockchain tech offer us is a sense of hope towards a better future.

I'll even use myself as an example... my wife and I are self-employed, with multiple income streams. Even so, we barely make ends meet. Steemit (as a blockchain tech example) offers a measure of hope because blogging here generates income that is in addition to rather than instead of something we've been doing all along... and that offers the hope that we can get back above water, somehow. Other projects-- like Viva and GrantCoin-- also offer people a measure of hope.

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Thank you for the thoughtful project. Indeed we see more and more people getting into the space and looking for alternatives. I believe the blockchain has something for everyone. When people realize the potential it will revolutionize everything — already does.