Cooperation Is Humanity's Greatest Asset!

in #cooperation7 years ago (edited)

I've been sitting on this post for more than a week now. I thought I wouldn't publish it for some reasons. I re-stumbled on it and changed my mind. I've previously touched on some of the topics but a lot of the thoughts are pretty original, like the one on cooperation and abuse, at least in the way I've brought them up.


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The End All Be All Of Influences

Every public matters will be discuss on Steem with everything this entails. Steem is already infinitely more monetarily rewarding than Reddit.com. There's very few reasons to think Steem won't surpass Reddit's popularity.

Reddit is the 4th most popular website and also the most similar one to Steemit. There's also very few reasons to think Youtubers won't take the extra seconds it takes to post their Youtube video to Steem. This will assure them some extra exposure.

Some have already begun. The same can be said of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter users just to name a few. This process can be automated to some degree.

We're already seeing different Steem interfaces to better cater for the many different types of content.

Most functions which Facebook, Youtube, Instagram, Twitter, etc. fulfill can all be achieve on Steem, so sooner or later these websites face the very real risk of being made obsolete. If I owned a couple millions dollars’ worth of shares in these companies I'd seriously consider selling some to buy some Steem.

Everything Leads To Steem!

The most valuable posts will find their way to the top of the trending page. Most valuable, according to the votes of those who have the most to lose or to gain from the Steem price and influence.

People will look closely at what their most beloved human publish on the Steem chain and make sure to resteem if they feel it warrants it. The result will be that no important posts will be missed. Society will become inter-connected on a whole new level.

Anyone with anything meaningful to share will do it on Steem.

There will be rankings of all sorts that aren't yet available, like the most resteemed posts and the post with the most votes from different class of Steemians and many more.

Let's Be Grateful!

At this very moment, let's all be grateful for the sums of influences that lead us here, to the end all be all of influences, that's right, the present moment, ever here, now, the present moment operates its magic, always. So let's all be grateful for it.

Joy!


My Dad!

The sums of all our past influences determine what ultimately influence us at this very moment. To me, joy is the end all be all of influences, at least that's what my passed influences have lead me to conclude.

We all want to feel joy. Joy doesn't leave anyone indifferent.

Some might argue, joy isn't it, so let me state it another way, what feels best or right is what all of us truly aim for.

Cooperation Is Humanity's Greatest Asset!

Whenever people come up in a mutually beneficial relationship or symbiotic relationship the whole is greater than the sum of its part. New opportunities arise that were totally impossible otherwise.

The more people cooperate, the greater the opportunities are. Thus everyone is much better off when people cooperate. Cooperation is the greatest asset.

Abuse Hinders Cooperation

Everyone is better off when everyone cooperate but abuse or even the sole possibility of abuse can be enough to hinder cooperation to the point of it being totally renounced.

Abuse Leads Toward Mutual Destruction

Not only abuse hinders cooperation but it leads to everyone expending and ever greater amount of energy to try to abuse others and to counter abuse. This inevitably leads toward mutual destruction, the exact opposite of cooperation.

Finding Solutions To Abuse Is Of The Upmost Value

Abuse arises when people think they can get away with deceiving others. Logically then, the more people are scrutinizing the actions of others, the greater the odds of the deceivers to be caught and also the greater the repercussions of being caught.

The harder it is to be deceitful, the greater the odds people will be honest and thus the greater the odds everyone will be better off.

"Society can function even if everyone draws the wrong conclusion... at least there is no abuse." Dan Larimer

What We Value Determines Our Actions


That face I make, that's how I feel all the time!

What we tell our self and each other have fundamentally more value and influence than any fiat money or national currencies. What we tell our self and the situation we are in define what has value and this is in a constant flux.

It is the sum of all our influences, experiences, self-utterance, attentions, etc., that define what we value. Governments and other mafias', relics of the past, have huge influences on our current life experiences and value.

Some institutions create money out of thin air, while most live from pay check to pay check if not outright trespass at the hand of money's direct influence but that's not where I'm going with this post.

Steem: The Most Influential Network

16 Days Ago And Today

Steem is rapidly becoming the most influential network, the most influential conglomerate of most valuable communicated thoughts. Nowhere else on the web are there intrinsic incentives for people to be honest.

Indeed, companies all over the internet provide very real monetary incentives to everyone to relinquish to self-empowerment to instead empower those very companies.

"Every Steemians have as their highest interest the dissemination of the most mutually beneficial knowledge. In contrast, all other institutions, companies, governments, armies, etc., have as their highest interest the empowerment of themselves at the expanse of everyone else. Generals, elected leaders and companies always have more empowering knowledge than their subordinates and competitors and their power depends on it." (@teamsteem)

Influence Is Money

The money use by corporations are fiat money or national currencies which are, let's not forget it, created out of thin air for the purpose of growing the influence of some at the expanse of everyone else.

There is always value in being able to influence others, in fact, influence is the most basic function of money. Money is anything that has value or influence. Some money can influence people to work for us while some money/food influence our body to generate energy.

Thus Steem which is fast becoming the most reliable network for trustable information has very real value and its currency, Steem, could possibly become one of the asset with the fastest growing value.

National Currencies Are Used As Tools To Enslave

People should really ask themselves what is the value of "holding" enchanted paper or computer numbers also called fiat money or national currencies which are created out of thin air... while everybody else need to work their ass off in the hope of getting some.

I won't go into the details of money creation in this post but money really is created out of thin air and added to the bank accounts of some people, risk free. I know it seems totally impossible.

"The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled." John Kenneth Galbraith

In economics, the money supply (or money stock) is the total amount of monetary assets available in an economy at a specific time. (Wikipedia)

Be Uplifting!


My sister!

All Steemians have incentives to empower one another, to be honest, to cooperate, to be uplifting, all the while having incentives to try to understand one another on things they disagree on.

It's our personal experiences that give rise to what we value and these comes from our surrounding. Steem is one click away for most Earthlings. It has incentives for people to sign up, disseminate the most empowering information and weight the amount of information they put out vs its quality and impact.

Dish Out National Currencies!

There's also incentives for people to dish out fiat money to invest in Steem and other cryptocurrencies. It will only become more obvious as a growing number of people will be communicated the benefits of decentralization and the inherent dangers of centralization of powers and money creation.

Steem: A Free Market Solution To Abuse

When someone buy Steem they inevitably makes its price go up, thus leading to the total value of the reward pool to follow suit. Now think about this, every Steemians become wealthier as the price rise yet they are giving away more wealth through the reward pool.

The more Steem wealth is given away because of Steem rising price, the wealthier and influential every Steemian becomes.

This might seem counter-intuitive at first and that's because it is. What this situation highlights is the fact that "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts."

When we're thinking of value, we're thinking primarily in terms of enchanted paper value or dollar value but the more fundamental value can't be counted in terms of $ value.

Enchanted papers have no real value except for those under its enchantments or those using these papers to free themselves from those exact same worthless paper and more precisely those who create them and force its use.

The primary value being created is the experience Steem is facilitating, it is the positive influence Steem is having on a growing number of people.

Institutional Truth Is An Oxymoron

All of us Steemians are taking part in deciding what posts are making it to the trending page. Institutional "truth" and people's truth will inevitably clash. There's already a clash.

Some of the most "powerful" people somewhere are probably scared to death and trying to conjure up the Steem Genie back from where it came and if they aren't, it's only be because they haven't yet fully figure out what Steem repercussions will be.

There is no such thing as institutional truth. Ultimately all institutions are bound to the countries they operate in. They are subservient to those national and international laws and depending on their size will sometimes have to face the pressure of some of the secret operatives working for these countries.

There's no fundamental truth to the existence of countries. Most actions taken by countries are in accordance with the truth of only a very small group of its constituent.

  • The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. – Sun Tzu, the Art of War Lived (c.500–320. B.C)

  • All warfare is based on deception. – Sun Tzu, the Art of War

Let's Spread Joy!

Probably the greatest speech ever

Wealth Is Just A Tool!


I'm working on some more. They'll get better!

I'm here helping in the creation of decentralized systems which empower and bring Joy to all.

I'm not here to make only Steem great, I'm here to make everything great!

Wealth is just a tool and not an end in itself. Joy is what I'm all about.

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"It will only become more obvious as a growing number of people will be communicated the benefits of decentralization and the inherent dangers of centralization of powers and money creation."

From your keyboard to God's Steemit feed! But I'm sure the banksters won't go down without a fight. We live in interesting times!

If they are smart enough they have already realize their predatory system run by warlord can only lead to mutual destruction. This system needs to be outdone. It's the greatest challenge.

It's true these warlords will fight. We all have our fears.

If we're really lucky, it won't even have to be fight. Most of the old guard is already into their 70s and 80s; just look at chairmen of the FED and the CEOs of the big banks. The old system will die with them!

Heh! They have shown pretty good at teaching their legacy.

You know I was thinking for a long time why there is so much incentive to destruction? And then it clicked:
Karen Hudes was talking about that there is this second species Homo Capensis. After all the research and study it made the most sense that indeed another species would have the motive to rule over us.
Now before you think I'm moving too much into conspiracy theory, consider that there have been found many Paracas skulls and they are not human!

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I agree, the experiment that is taking place all around us in the crypto space and with Steemit is changing the fabric that connects society together. Politics is the highest level of human interaction and most politics are driven by money.

The disruption that crypto is creating, specifically Steemit, is attacking the establishment on these 2 fronts. As we all know its only a matter of time before the old starts to crumble but not before we have a system in place that can replace it.

This is other great Chaplin Speech. 17 years after being forced out of the United States because of his political views. This one was done by his 10 year old son, Michael Chaplin.

Sorry upvoting myself to get up higher. I believe this video needs more eye balls.

Nice! I had seen that video but I never realized that was Chaplin's son.

I had never knew Chaplin left the USA because of his political views. That's not a surprise. The USA like any other countries need to protect their interests.

Nothing can threaten their interests, not even freedom. Freedom is in fact the greatest treat to their interests.

Thank you! When Chaplin and his family traveled to London for the premier of Limelight (1952), he was denied re-entry to the United States. He and his wife decided to settle in Switzerland. Chaplin was a free thinker open to the possibility of other forms of government. This was a direct challenge to Hoover's FBI and he was labled a communist without any due process.

The biggest threat to this Monopoly Crony Capitalist system we live in today are free thinkers. People who dare even consider there could be a better way. During Chaplin's time Marxism was the only alternative that had a program that could directly challenge the worlds power structure.
Today we have other alternatives.

My family had been loyal democrats for 3 generations. After my time in the US Navy working in Electronic intelligence I got to peek behind the curtain and was sadly disheartened. After the Navy I started to explore other forms of government. I became a member of the communist party and a staunch Stalinist, but after years of study, organizing and gaining access to the inner workings I again started to lose faith in this alternative. The goal was still the same, building a centralized hub, ( the party) from which all direction came from. It was like rearraning the deck chairs on the titanic.

I want to make this point because I see alot of frustrated naive individuals gravitating toward a Marxist philosophy with very little understanding of the nuances.

Today I'm still searching. I like some of the things I hear from Anarcho-capitalist. Up until recently they did not have a program or the tools that could compete with Communisim or Monoploy Capitalism. Cryptocurrency has changed all of that and now they do have an incredibly powerful tool.

I think you'd love my post on Dan Larimer. You should check it out.

Thank you for the heads up looking for it now!

Cant find it is there a link?

Sneak --- I agree with him, search out his post he did months ago on @dan / @dantheman - Dan Larimer. He includes it in his blog posts in his list of some blogs at the bottom of each of his posts, it is good.

https://steemit.com/liberty/@teamsteem/thank-you-dan-larimer-you-are-a-great-mentor

Thank you, brother, that is appreciated. I will check it!

I'm not sure if an upvote to you is appropriate here since its pass the 7 days?

I agree, your post on @dan / @dantheman is great, -- I sent this fellow the link to that blog post, in this thread !!

I want to go to Amsterdam and I need a passport?
Well that's propestrous!

So true "without a passport getting out of a country is like breaking out of jail and entering a country is like go through the eye of a needle" by Michael Chaplin

@TeamSTEEM... Your Post was so convincing & compelling that I actually went to Bittrex... bought about $1,500 of STEEM at or near the LOWS... >> : ~ )) BEFORE actually finishing Your Post...

Will come back later to finish this response 2 Your exceptional Post...

Thank You TeamSTEEM !!

@TeamSTEEM...Your natural progression of logic, common sense & the Joy/Happiness that is derived from Co=operation is excellent and is reflected very well in most of the comments here.

It's amazing how Powerful/Up-Lifting thoughts & feelings can be transformed within ourselves, our family, our friends and ultimately the world as a global/united community when it allows for tolerance & simple everyday kindness/grace and... this can happen in less than a moment...

ReSTEEMed earlier this afternoon.

Hope everyone has a Great Weekend !!

I really love your comment. Kindness and Grace!

TeamSTEEM... Have much more to share but would probably be best to do it in private in SteemChat...

...but basically I feel this post may be one of the best Posts written by anyone here because it exemplifies how the Steemit Community ( Concept ) was perhaps divinely inspired & constructed to bring all human beings together ( erasing ALL boundaries/division, like race, rich or poor, country of origin, politics, religion, etc. )

...and this is perhaps the essence of Your Post...

Thank You 4 writing & expressing these ideas in Your Post.

I never dare to put it like you did but you somewhat reflect how I see things. Steem is only a part of this.

It seems like life on earth needs to overcome what made it evolve. Life evolve through competition and cooperation but maybe we need to do away with destructive competition.

The predatory system the powers that shouldn't be have put in place will only get them to the point of being pray to their own system.

Maybe we can out evolve this system. Since I was very young I was thinking about such ideas, maybe not as clearly as now but at least the beginning of it.

Absolutely great post.. one I think I will re-read a few times!

I'm glad you decided to post it after all. Thanks for your links to other resources as well. Sometimes I have to wade through the politics that runs through steemit, which is hard for someone fairly new to get their head around and I am always so grateful to find people genuinely trying to help the rest of us get ahead.

Witness voted submitted :)

Thank you very much!

The entire article was great... but you nailed it in the title.

You said this very well:

"The more people cooperate, the greater the opportunities are. Thus everyone is much better off when people cooperate. Cooperation is the greatest asset."

I think of it as "everyone pulling on the same rope". We might use different techniques but if we are all pulling on that same rope together, we can do amazing things!

This is very true!

The best times in the real world are when everyone cooperates and works together for the benefit of all. I think we are starting to find that true with the Internet as well.

"I'm not here to make only Steem great, I'm here to make everything great!"

I'm with you on this one, because I feel if everyone gets great. We all win in the end. The people finally win. Every tomorrow to come. For the first time in history. Thank you for sharing. I'd like to see the look on Zuckerberg's face when he realizes there's a tsunami coming his way.

I would state a few things differently.

Wealth is not a tool, money is the tool.

Wealth is the product of using money wisely, spending less than you earn and applying money in ways that increase it's value.

Much the same way that a hammer becomes more valuable by driving nails into wood or striking a chisel to sculpt marble, Steemit has the potential to create wealth by applying it in ways that increase its value to society at large.

And the skilled carpenter is deemed more valuable to society than the child who nails boards together in a haphazard way. Skills make all the difference in the world.

It remains to be seen if there are enough skilled hands left in the world to make Steemit as valuable as we need it to be.

You're right. At the same time I think wealth can be a tool to Joy. But i guess you're right. Maybe I should use the word money instead.

I agree that "wealth" can lead to joy.

While I don't have a lot of money, I consider myself"wealthy" for the relationships I've developed here over the past few weeks..

Well said! You're all such great writers.

There are some very good writers here. I'm more of a conceptual cutter & paster.

At least the flow flows so no problems here ;)

"Dictators free themselves but enslave the people" Charlie Chaplin. Thanks a lot for this post, instilling value in mankind is exponentially valuable to us all, this post helped me see that.

Good contribution wanted to communicate my sense of support to what you have written, who can read this message with his voting power would be helping me enormously, I want to leave the country of Venezuela and really by my own means cost me a lot. I would thank you with all my heart, I am in need of doing this because of the serious situation my family is suffering and I would like to be able to work where I was part of the world to send my family contributions of money and food. Thank you.

Keep strong! The whole world looks about to shift. All Earthlings will be uplift through technological means and cryptocurrencies.

I want Steem/Steemit break the oligarchy in social media where they just are controlled by governments @teamsteem

Thank you for coming back to this draft and publishing it. It's a real piece of art both inspirational and informative.

Before I joined Steemit I had absolut no knowledge about blockchain & crypto and it just took a few moments to hook me and a few more days to inhale all the knowledge I could get about Steemit, blockchain & crypto.

Steemit is definitely a vehicle into the future and I also see a big possibility for many alternative communities I am involved in. You're right, Fiat money is absolent. We are pioneering the future and I am glad to be a part of that

(づ。◕‿‿◕。)づ

Awesome. I love this line the best: "People will look closely at what their most beloved human publish on the Steem chain and make sure to resteem if they feel it warrants it. The result will be that no important posts will be miss. Society will become inter-connected on a whole new level." As an inventor, I see another dimension here: there is an incentive to innovate things that actually serve the great good of all. Oh.... and help fix mistakes and typos: don't forget to add "ed" to "no important posts will be miss". ;-) Collaborative innovation!

haha I loved the video

Sorry I missed this earlier. I agree that cooperation is basically what makes us so strong. Steem/Steemit is built on it and so replicates something that real life in our formal "civilised" societies often forgets - it almost seems like the modern world is designed to make us work against each other.

Wow! I agree. It really seems like society is designed to make us work against each other.

Yes and it seems that the established systems help to keep it that way and if anything make it worse.

It is. Friendship is important, support is important, cumming hard with an amazing, erotically imploding woman is important. All of the previous said things require cooperation.

Hahaha! I love it!

Well done post You deserve for getting Upvote from me. I appreciate on it and like it so much . Waiting for your latest post. Keep your good work and steeming on. Let's walk to my blog. I have a latest post. Your upvote is high motivation for me. Almost all Steemians do their best on this site. Keep steeming and earning.

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Cooperation is fine as long as it is not forced upon people. Consent is key. Voluntary cooperation is what humanity needs. If someone is forcing you to work together, they are a tyrant. If something is forcing you to work together, it is tyrannical. Sic semper tyrannis!

Sure. There's no such thing as forced cooperation.

Take food or liberty away from a people, and they will be surprisingly cooperative if it helps them get what they need. Governments do this all the time.

Steemit is helping me now with my situation and I am glad I am being supported by one of the leaders here.
#LongLiveSteemit

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This post is evident of what we stand to gain as stemians. Great info from someone with deep knowledge of how big corporation's extort people unknowingly of which steemit is here to fill the gap for the better. Am grateful to be part of this wonderful platform. Thanks for sharing this...

great post,i'm glad you post it at last,still new here here lol,kindly out my blog @cryptohunt

I am working my way thru this post, figured I would stop and advise you that your heading here for Mutual needs the U. I will go keep reading now my man!!

I have really enjoyed getting to know you this last many months, you are truly a wonder of community and with a big heart.

Abuse Leads Toward Mutal Destruction

Good catch!

I thought 15 mins afterwards maybe I should just DM you on FB I asked you to do with me on my posts but figured you might be really active on this post being a steward with all your replies you make, so I took a shot lol.

I hope you enjoy your weekend man, truly and that Most Canadian thing you might read all year post today on my page I sent you!

LOL!

I'll take a look. I just came back.

Super, I hope you had a stellar weekend.

Not referring to the Stellar Lumens crash in price either LOL

Have a nice week buddy, I am thinking of you!

Stellar Lumens thinks giving away Stellar for nothing is suppose to get them where? That's absurd.

When I heard that this week, I wondered along the same lines. I mean, I really do not get it, in the grand scheme of things either.

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Your post is very informative and fun to read. Keep up the great work teamsteem!

I dig the red hat lodge room video. Did you make the video yourself?

Congratulations @teamsteem!
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great job my brother, this is a great presentation you did right there. You have my support and prayers. You are blessed with all blessings

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Thank you!

I can not believe that the movie speech of one the greatest silent film made before America entered World War 2 is still relevant today
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032553/

Like the way you see things. Hope Steem will take more values and all of will become wealthy.

Looking nice post,iam going to read it all carefully,thanks for share

Let's Spread Joy!

Steemit has the potential indeed to overthrow many other global powers. The growth rate of steemit is astonishing. A bright future is less far. Lets nurture for its growth.
Thanks for sharing such an amazing content indeed.

Very good post, thank you very much for sharing. Hopefully you and your family are always happy wherever you are. Greetings from me @rizasukma :-)

This is a great blog. A lot of wee thought out information and I love the pictures.

One of the downsides to reddit is they some times frown on Youtube videos. If you read the side rules per sub-forum, a lot of them specify no youtube content. Thats not an issue with Steenit, in fact, I hear talk about Steemit creating the ability to directly upload creators videos.

I didn't knew that about reddit. It's good to know.

At least that is my experience. I even ended up permanently banned on one sub-forum, my content was relevant to the subject, it was my first time posting in that sub-forum, and bam lol No warning, I was permanently banned. I could understand if I was spamming, but I only post content on Reddit 2-3 times a month and that is if I find a relevant sub forum. Needless to say, I don't mess with Reddit anymore.

Wow , really deep thought put into this, well thought out and extremely well said.
You add a lot of links I hope the chance to get back on and look up. Thanks for posting such an insightful article.

Great post!!! A Lot of meat, helpful links, I learned a lot, great old pics by the way 😉

so much information and lessons in one post. as always, another great post @teamsteem.

very interesting post. Keep it up man.

After reading this post I understand why you took your precious time deciding to post this masterpiece. I learned over the last few days that many super mainstream corps are accepting bitcoin soon..to give a couple Amazon and the porn industry, those two alone will sky rocket crypto and steem is bitcoin wing-man. Thanks again for this amazing read..sorry if i'm off topic some but cheers!!!

First and foremost, I totally agree with you. Cooperation is also the collection of people doing a certain task with the same purpose and goals. As they always say, united we stand, divided we fall.

Great content. You seem real and normal, down to earth, honest and genuine. I'm so glad to find you here. Upvote & follow ✌🏾

Thank you @steemed-open! I'm glad to know you too!

Very good post sir, you have my up-vote and I will be following.

Hi there its a nice post
if you like me please help me to grow by
upvoting my posts and following me would be great help
Thanks

Yes. Everyone is looking for this. No need to ask.

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I also been thinking about cooperation in humanity, and how it helped us since the very beginning, we cooperated to hunt together and protect each other, so society basically is build upon mutual cooperation... Whats interesting is that a site like this (steemit) is kind of the new way of human cooperation, and that is just fascinating...

incredible work, i must say !! HolySmoke!

very well put, it's on the rise!

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