Reading your post @taskmaster4450, made me think of this song:
We are all fortunate enough to have made it this far, to see there was a need for change and we found a vehicle that will help us potential ride the tide that is coming.
Long before I got onto steem, I often wondered why someone didn't create a version of facebook that was owned by its users. So you can imagine my excitement when I came across steem. No one invited me, I simply worked my way through all the coins on coin market cap. This was the one project that I could actually use. I would love someone to show me another example. Everything else I tried was buggy, not on their own blockchain or just a promise of a future project.
I was watching a video today by Trace Mayer who is one of the earliest investors in Bitcoin. He talked about the need for deep research and learning to be able to see what is coming. We can simply assume that all those early adopters are just really lucky (and I am sure some are), but to dismiss their foresight would be foolish.
I have loaded up on steem based on what I have learnt. Let's hope times are changing and we are right.