The reason people feel so deeply stirred by connecting with Hive is because they resonate with the feeling of personal and financial sovereignty here. I've created a contest at the end of this post to put focus on Hive as an alternative to the traditional (trad) economy: corporate oligarchy. Meanwhile, read the post for your inspiration.
How To Become Wealthy
There are only two ways to become wealthy and financially free in most countries:
- Investing
- Owning your own business working for YOURSELF
With the exception of engineering, rarely does someone "make it to the top" as an EMPLOYEE by playing fair, being nice, working hard, and just being gal dern skilled at what they do.
Ya can't do it. It doesn't happen.
Gaming The System
The only way to become even moderately wealthy and well positioned as an employee in the "real world" is either corporate enslavement (70-80 hours a week), or gaming the system.
To game the system, either you've got good connections from the start, or you've cleverly worked your way to the top for years and played it right with the right people. But you've compromised a few values (and people) in the process.
If someone is bragging about their position, they are also telling you they manipulated to get there. The alternative is, like I said, being a corporate slave. Either way, you're in a morally appalling situation, and you're STILL not wealthy. Your life depends on you giving away MORE THAN HALF OF YOUR WAKING LIFE TO SOMEONE ELSE!!
The only way to truly be wealthy and free from this code is by owning your own business, and/or investing. Very few reach this destination. And this is by design.
Human Condition = Enslavement of the Many to the Few
Working dozens of hours a week to eek out rent and food is not living. It is slavery. This is by design. It is evil design. It is not a sovereign life.
Just because you have a car and can drive it places doesn't mean you're not a slave to the oligarchy. It's been this way for tens of thousands of years.
There are exceptions of small communities or nations throughout history who have lived sovereignly in a communal space. The Coeur D'elene and the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux tribes are good examples. People be taking home tens of thousands of dollars a MONTH just for being born into the tribe, yo.
But these exceptions are rare. Enslavement is the code of humanity and has been for millennia.
Humanity Is Waking Up
These ideologies are changing, though. Humanity is waking up. People are figuring out this is wrong, that they deserve more, and the inaliable rights thing is starting to kick in without even being told about it.
The idea of being a completely sovereign, self operating, self sufficient human being is so out of most people's context, we don't even talk about it anymore. But we are completely sovereign beings and are meant to operate that way. And we all know it on some level.
This is Why Hive Matters
The reason people feel so deeply stirred by connecting with Hive is because they resonate with the feeling of sovereignty here.
Sure, there's social climbing and stake-based climbing here too. But for the first time, many of us feel as though a true financial and social economy is actually possible -- where people are valued for their WORTH and their CONTRIBUTIONS rather than their manipulations and gaming and enslavement within a system.
The idea sounds a bit fanatical in reach, but I actually think that a system like Hive can commandeer the poverty and enslavement protocol of the rest of the world.
I believe in this place. Always have.
As Long As It Is Kept Sacred
The witness consensus and decentralization needs to remain a sanctuary. As long as corruption stays at a minimum, we have a chance. This is the ONLY thing from keeping us like every other fiat oligarchy out there. All the rest of the wee people piled on a heap could do nothing to keep this place authentic and fruitful if the sanctuary became rotten.
It appears as though the sanctuary has remained intact for the most part. From my slightly less than rose colored vantage point, there appear to be actual investors here who believe in a higher law of financial abundance. Some others have begun climbing their way through the vines with some fresh spirit and ideas forthcoming to generate more interest for our rebellious economy here. @pollenation comes to mind.
I loiter on campus with bated breath to see how we climb out of the darkness and send a beacon of sovereignty to the masses. The first step needs to be making it easier to funge. More on that later.
Hive's Finest: A Contest
Tell me a whale or witness you believe has the platform's best interest in mind, where we can create a vast and shining ecosystem and uproot the human code of enslavement in the rest of the world.
- Rule #1: List as many as you like. Just make a separate comment for each. Make sure you @_____ their name. We don't mind if they stop by, do we?
- Rule #2: Make a case for them. Give examples relating back to a concept in this post that resonates with you
- Rule #3: The proposal with the highest NUMBER of votes wins. So please vote for each other if you support someone's proposal
Greetings and thank you for this beautiful opportunity to write in your post
I think it is possible:
Create a vast and brilliant ecosystem and eradicate the human code of slavery in the rest of the world.
However, achieving it requires having a clear vision of Community and what the word means, that is, having common objectives that benefit everyone equally and I think that since I came to Hive I have seen that vision of Community as @hispapro attests.
I remember that when I started in Hive more than six months ago I was a little disoriented and the kind and selfless hand of @crisch23, member and curator of the @hispapro team, helped me in my difficult beginnings and not only me; All of us who are in Hive receive the support of this great Community that is @hispapro, who are committed to the growth of each one of us, and also offer us a
Healing Program three days a week where many times thanks to them our posts do not go unnoticed, a great gesture that I greatly appreciate, it also summarizes the most outstanding publications weekly. Among other activities, it promotes interaction between users, giving us the opportunity to choose our favorite creator with a dynamic they call Hispapro destaca, reconocimiento a los Hivebuilder, among other activities in which I have had the pleasure of participating.
I think that if there were more projects like @hispapro in Hive that supported those of us who make life in this ecosystem in this spontaneous and selfless way, Hive would be a much more beautiful place than it is.
What I have learned most in my stay at Hive is the teaching of those who belong to this @hispapro team, the great support they give to those who are just starting out but not to stay and continue depending on them but rather that support and knowledge. That they give us an incentive to open our own wings and fly through this great ecosystem and that we multiply the knowledge they gave us to those who are to come; since , it is the best way to not be slaves to the system and commit to continue growing with our effort and create our own financial freedom, which seems to be in line with point 2:
Since as they say in my country
"don't give them the fish, teach them to fish"
It is the only way to let them be independent and achieve in Hive that freedom and financial sovereignty that we so long for.
This is a humble opinion from this servant, and I greatly appreciate everyone who makes life in Hive so that this is a good place.
Looks like a good role model for a new community I just launched called "Costa Rica Pura Vida" - intended to be very similar to your Venezuelan community, just sort of like a similar neighbor down the street from it.
You sure made sure we saw that @hispapro tag though! 😆
Greetings from Venezuela, interesting the name of your very Caribbean community
Hola y gracias, mi amigo internacional. Soy gringo de USA pero me mudé a Costa Rica. Un placer conocerte.
What a drastic change of country. Do you already speak Spanish?
Tomo clases en línea por Zoom con un tutor y un grupo, pero soy terrible en eso. Tengo que usar traductores para las cosas complejas, pero hasta ahora puedo moverme por la ciudad, hacer amigos, comprar alimentos y gasolina y conseguir comida de restaurantes y cosas en español. Soy un poco mayor, por lo que aprender idiomas no es tan fácil como lo es para los cerebros más jóvenes, pero me las arreglo.
I think you can learn it little by little, at your own pace, and I think you are good with words, since yesterday I have been reading you, for you I came to the post of the friend who is doing the contest where I name hispapro a thousand times... without @ not to name it anymore, and it would be good if you continued answering everyone so eloquently in that way but in Spanish so as not to use a translator. jjejej😅
Thanks for the shoutout for @pollenation witness! Our witness partnership definitely agrees that every person here has their own unique power and capability to contribute something to the our community.
The kind of powerful people we have amongst us here, combined into a cohesive community with a decentralized core, but sharing a singularity of like minded intentions for a better world, like the world we all foster together here on Hive, make quite a force to be reckoned with.
I could not agree more! Thanks for the sentiment.
Thanks for the inspiration.
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