I truly appreciate your post as its also quite informative and thought provoking...For me, steem is not only about steem power but freedom from servitude...By this I can explain with my personal testimony which also is my strategy. being new in steem and relatively unemployed for a long while even with my masters degree! I joined steem just 3 weeks ago and started with a little amount i saved ...currently, thanks to hard work and daily engagements with other people's contents through constructive comments, curation and posts, i have covered over 450% ROI and counting buying steem power daily. As such, I no longer search for work but steeming hot. This means, I am my own boss as a stemian!.
My strategy is increase my online presence from 6hrs to 10hrs on steemit daily, reading interesting posts, art works, salivating on good foods and responding with my thoughts and following replies, as such i have built a growing followership that is helping me succeed.
Daily engagement has earned me over 500+ followers in less than 3 weeks and i target my first 1k followers, God willing soon. So this is my strategy to build myself by trying to gather enough followers through positively engaging on daily basis for long hours and encouraging new members thereby getting some good upvotes daily. I do see steem as an arena or community where hardwork pays and not complaints. My few posts didn't earn much as such i adopted new strategy to build followers first and then start posting great contents...
Enough of me and my strategy (sorry to bore you guys) now back to your message.
some few lines struck me which i wanna analyze... the first is "In exchange for locking in your funds, you get a fix interest + the ability to direct income wherever you want...even to yourself".
also...
"You don't have control over the value of STEEM and how much you can send in USD terms but you can create over time a steady stream of income via upvoting your own content and curating other people's post."
This is my future target in steem to build enough steem power to be able to help new comers as most of you great guys are doing. Glad to be following you to be getting such wonderful posts.
Also your explanation of SP is as comparable to a dividend stock is awesome and really hit the nail at the right head...Now for all these, its no more rocket science to understand that one needs to build his steem power to be able to pay people through curation and also earn something for that, as such...why cant we all join hands together following your statement in your post to build "one nation under steeem"!
My question now is...how can we use this power in steem power to help and encourage those posts that are sent by those with very low steem power which does not even get read by anyone and no upvote...how can we use steem power to encourage those minnows who work so tirelessly day & night to come up with good contents and it disappears into oblivion...cant we have a separate header where best 100 best written posts with low steem power especially from minnows are published and those with steem power are encouraged to upvote and get a higher % of the curation more than when they upvote themselves... while not allowing more than 5 self upvote daily...Just my thoughts which i wanna share through your blog since I know you are part of the big guys with big heart...
Thank you for reading...
@kenhudoy