And of course you can trade as a way to be a deeper stakeholder, such as trading tokens to have enough to buy more Steem. Visionaries care about the future. I consider myself a visionary because I'm a futurist. Some others are libertarian, or anarchists, or socialists, or whatever utopia they see for themselves. Visionaries look for beautiful and practical technology for use in their own life, to build their own personal utopias, while traders simply seek profit without any long term vision or ideology.
There is a place for both. Profit is great and necessary, but profit for it's own sake is empty. It is true that profit is a means to an end, which is a usually better life for whomever is making the profit. Trading merely for profit doesn't mean by trading your life is going to keep getting better just because your numbers keep increasing in the wallet or bank statements. And vision in my opinion is personal, you don't have to share it with anyone, you don't have to join any ideology, or cult, or religion, or submit to any authoritarian vision of what your future should be, it's yours to build and tech are just tools from which to do it. Profitable tech simply makes it much easier and more fun to build.
LOVE this outlook. :-)
In the maelstrom, even here on Steemit, it is so refreshing to find more and more sane voices ringing true. I begin to feel more and more at home amongst the legitimate visionaries I came to find. It's such a simple yet blatantly obvious message for anyone willing to lift their eyes at least 6" off the ground, and I am glad to see you (followed and resteemed) giving it some clout!