but because our governance systems have been captured by a tiny, extremely wealthy minority who continuously change the rules in their favour.
For sure. The same minority that owns or supports the centralized platforms and encourages people to keep diving in.
People aren't struggling paycheck to paycheck because they're lazy, they're struggling because systems have been set up so they're not receiving a fair portion of the value generated from their productivity.
As said, the platforms don't encourage understanding this, or a way out. They encourage being a renter, a user - not a creator, or owner.
The general strike shouldn't be for work, it should be against centralized currencies, centralized governance.
Zuckerberg or Elon are encouraging people to dive into their platforms... by ensuring there is quality, interesting content that people get value from. They pay a small number of people a lot of money, a reasonable amount of people some money, and a lot of people a little bit of money to encourage lots of people to donate their time and effort into creating valuable content.
This means that most people who go to one of these centralized platforms see something they are interested in... and because people are interested enough to keep coming back, advertisers spend more, which means these platforms can pay the top creators more and brands also offer top creators deals as well... so creators creating interesting, valuable content can make a ton of money - MrBeast is a great example of this.
I don't think they discourage people from being creators at all... it's just that being a creator is really hard, especially when you are exhausted from your day job.
This is why I'm really doubtful about whether Hive is ever really going to take off, it needs exclusive content that is really good to draw the eyeballs in... but really good creators can make way more elsewhere.
I think you are missing what is happening. Remember the masses? They aren't creating anymore. Not on the platforms, not anywhere. Being a creator is easy, we are made to be them, and we do it from childhood. Being a paid creator is hard however, and they are controlled by the platforms and pushed to the masses, so that the masses no longer create, no longer feel they have the ability to solve their own problems, or make their own decisions.
You have talked many times of the evils of corporations and the governments, but when people aren't able to make their own solutions and decisions, that is what we are destined to support more of - more concentrated power with more control over the masses.
Keep supporting Mr Beast or whatever that is and the centralized platforms, and watch more local creators disappear, and more artists never start.
Hive might never take off because really good creators will make more elsewhere. However, really spend time thinking about what that leads to. Some of the creators are seeing the problem with ad revenue models, but most are just in it to get their dues to buy themselves a better life for themselves, even though ultimately, it will lead to a worse life for everyone, including them.
Don't get me wrong, I want Hive to succeed. It's why I push back on the misinformation that I find... in order to increase the quality of the content so that it can be valuable to people that might randomly find us.
I think it's important to figure out why the price of the Hive token hasn't been going up alongside Bitcoin, Solana and many other cryptos, to figure out why overall activity of the Hive blockchain seems to be dropping, to figure out who is buying Hive and why.
I totally understand the dangers of centralized platforms, particularly in the areas of misinformation... but also to democratize the ability for people to earn from creating so that centralized platforms can't just ban someone for no reason and disrupt their livelihoods.
My concern is that the Hive community is just generally out to extract as much value as possible, by posting content that will likely result in upvotes but isn't interesting or useful to the outside world.