Thats the thing though, no one has to be convinced to use US dollars. The people posting right now are very early adopters, trying to gain wider acceptence. Theyre trying to convince a mostly skeptical audience that sees get rich scams every single day that theyre not full of shit.
Its a dying genre now that streaming is a thing, but if you ever get a chance, check out some late night TV infomercials. The kind where they tell you how to get rich buying real estate or whatever...
When they're explaining whatever scammy racket theyre trying to sell you on, it always starts with two words.
"its simple" Because when its simple, its easy to gloss over failure points. When its simple, there's no reason to think critically.
I make more money than most, and ive made money in more different ways than most. Sometimes its easy, sometimes its hard, but its never simple.
Ask yourself this -- when was the last time someone told you how to make a lot of money, and it was for real not a scam, and it was mad simple. I get the impression reading your posts that youre in on the marketing side of software development or something like that.
Is it simple? Could you explain to me how to do it well (let alone the market dynamics that drive the industry) in terms of an episode of ducktales?
A person whos telling you how simple it is to make a lot of money doing X has a fucking agenda.
And most people, the people we presumably want to adopt the platform, understand that. Yeah, people are generally stupid... theyre just not as stupid as most steemians give them credit for -- at least not the ones on the front page. Im always surprised and a little disgusted to see posts on the front page about how Steemit will attract people just like slot machines do, or posts about how its simple, just invest 1000 in steem, and it will be worth $1 million in 5 years....or how some dude couldnt afford underpants until he found steem, and now hes rich.
I mean seriously its 2016. No ones going to buy into that.