How often do you wonder if the promise of the crypto future will just never arrive, that it is all since kind of cruel trick and the effort and investments you have made will be lost while those privy laugh, counting your money?
Do you love your job, are you satisfied with your income?
How much time, effort and money did you put into being where you are today and, how long did out take you. School, university, training programmes? They are industries that take massive amounts of resources to maintain and participate in but, is it investment well spent?
Does institutional education really distribute wealth of as it increases, so do income inequalities as 8 individuals possess as much value as 3.5 billion others?
Go to school so you can get a good job and have a happy life.
Happy. Is that your life experience, your working life experience? Perhaps it is time work for something else than a system that continually drives increasing amounts of wealth to a decreasing number of people. It is a continual process of ramping up competition to increase barriers of entry and it chooses those bars in a narrow set of skill areas that are only suited to a narrow set of any population. It creates gaps by design.
One of my hopes for the new economies of the future that it is more skill inclusive meaning it can support a larger range of talents adequately. There will always be higher and lower paid fields but rather than an engineered system that chooses what fields are important, a free market can decide.
Free market systems aren't easy to manage but, they do give much more room to grow and innovate as the needs of the people decide importance, not an authority. But, this means much more responsibility on individuals and likely leads to societies that understand community strength is the best way to serve individual talents and needs.
Isn't that what we are trying to accomplish here? It is far from perfect of course but what makes it even further away is our individual behaviours and thinking that we have brought in from our institutionalised educations and industrialised authorities that drive the concept that the state is more important than the people even if it doesn't satisfy the needs of those people adequately.
This is different to a community that looks after the people to create itself as if people aren't satisfied, the community dissolves automatically. A state does not, it just needs to look after enough participants to keep it functioning and it can engineer and manipulate its members to keep itself alive.
I think it is quite easy to see that where we are headed as a global society is not leading to a healthy and happy population nor economic stability, so perhaps it is time to stop falling for the pitch and buying into the system.
We might fail to solve these issues also but, running the experiment has value in and of itself. Perhaps blockchain and crypto currencies will die a fast death, perhaps they will rocket and drive innovation. It is in the uncertainty where the opportunity lays, not the known.
Taraz
[ a Steem original ]
(posted from phone)
"It's a pyramid scheme!" is what I've been hearing of late. Unless it gets mainstream adoption, it is possible that a crypto future won't arrive.
I actually wonder if third and second world countries could end up leading the way in this case, because Steem can provide an income much more easily there.
This is always the call but rarely do people actually have a look into it. Mainstream takes time, this is just the very beginning.
This is very possible, not just as an income though. The low cost of infrastructure is a driving factor in adoption and all of this can be done with little more than an internet connection and a connected phone. Everyone has access to a bank 24/7 without there ever being the need for a banking institution.
A pyramid, yes - but not what people use the word for usually. I'd rather say it takes a pyramid of efforts before you reach success in your field. I am sifting through quotes because of a project of my own and I found something well said by a person who is famous for saying things well:
'Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.'
― Stephen King
So with any platform. I think I'll take the time to write some very lengthy post about effort and the get-rich-quick scheme that everybody is warned against, still a lot do fall for.
Most people want the peak without building the base. What they fail to realise is that the base is not only where all the work is done, it is where the least amount of return is received. It doesn't matter what the skill is, the foundation takes, time, effort, perseverance and a lot of failure; which is why so few make it to the summit.
It's often pointless pointing out that this would make fiat currency a pyramid scheme too.
Great thought provoking post.
Uncertainty also makes people afraid and when they are afraid they want to feel safe and to feel safe people will give up their rights - to have someone protect them and make them feel safe...I believe here lies one of the big problems, we have to stop being afraid to try different things.
Like yourself I have high hopes for crypto and blockchain, something more then lining people pockets. fingers crossed.
I think this is part of the control by design as it essentially plays on our own fears to keep us from trying different. Whenever people step out of line, they are shamed, ridiculed, targeted, destroyed as an example lesson to others. The move has to essentially be privately funded by people who don't care what others think. And here we are :)
I love Steem because it allows for the monetization of hobbies and unused talents without requiring any kind of formal employment. The barrier to entry is very low. A lot of people have talents that they cannot in monetize in their careers. Some people are generalists and being forced to focus one thing only would be a waste. Blockchain techonology and cryptocurrency make it possible to generate streams of income from multiple pursuits in a very flexible manner. At this stage, we are early adopters which means there's a good chance income left in crypto and not cashed out might appreciate considerably with mainstream adoption. On Steem, it's easy to write poetry, for example, completely anonymously and receive feedback and cryptocurrency in compensation. It is vastly batter than no compensation at all.
I completely agree. I mentioned to @cryptoandcoffee about decentralizing education and slowly changing and widening the skillsets available. I think what this will do (in time) is create a lot more earning skill diversity with lower peaks but wider distribution.
Yep. People are encouraged to dabble and explore their skills and have opportunity for some reward for it. The employment world is changing and as more come on, the speed will increase. We have talked about AI a lot and this type of opportunity to earn is essentially a way to value add to a ubi-type income and allow many and varied participants.
A lot of uncertainty but it is fun being on the ride. I am hoping like you that it will take a foot hold and grow to what it can become and change so many of our financial fortunes.
I am betting on it doing this. I also think that it has a chance to decentralize the very educational mechanisms that encourage narrow views of needs and in so doing work from the ground up to shift the institutions above. If you think that governments are made up of people similar to us that have been brought through the same systems, if we change the pipeline feeding the governments, in a generation or two governments could take on a much healthier role. The problem is that we fight the fires, not stop the pyromaniacs. We need to be more upstreamist in our thinking.
Grreat think and post . I like it . ....
these comments are useless as they bring nothing to any conversation and I am going to start flagging them.
You got a 53.97% upvote from @ocdb courtesy of @tarazkp!