What a good way to see the ecosphere of steemit! I am happy to have found this article of yours and the debate you create around the steemitsphere.
I would like to deliver a poetic view on it which came to my mind while reading your article:
People, imagine a permaculture garden. Those who founded this garden, who bought the land to create such a place, need lovers who are interested in the biodiversity of the garden and the harvest itself. They need participants who have a profound interest in the fertility of the soil, the diversity of plants and animals, who operate a functioning water management system and who do not tear out every little shoot right from the start, as soon as it has started to grow. This would be like harvesting the entire first crop without ensuring that seeds are stored, new crops are planted and the harvest for the coming year can also take place. Such a (kinder)garden needs several years to become an adult garden, to be a place of cooperation, food, refreshment and edification for visitors and other gardeners alike. In the beginning there is in reality not so much to harvest as to provide the conditions for an ecologically rich system to develop.
At the moment, there are still many land buyers and occupiers who have grown monocultures of sprouts and now stare at them at every opportunity and say: Grow, now finally grow! These non-gardeners then bring in new amateurs. They have taken a seed or a sprout and put it somewhere, no matter whether it is sitting where it is good, whether it gets enough light or shade, etc. Someone else then comes by and plucks the leaves or throws fertilizer from the retort onto the plant or expects it to do magical things. And because it doesn't do that, he goes on indifferently and looks at the next seedling in a similarly superficial way. Alternating helplessly scratching his head or almost angry at the sparse green.
Other unwitting people marvel at a few giant trees and scratch around them, water them constantly and stroke the bark, praise the leaves. They forget that they could care less for such a tree than for the entire garden.
The number of permaculturists, it seems, is still inferior to the property buyers. A claimer who wants to let such a garden work for himself, but does not purchase a pump for the well and does not pay workers for the construction of water retention basins, who does not allow critters to graze or dig on the land and does not nurture and care for the seedling on a daily basis is not a founder but merely a bungler who does not understand his business. Especially when the garden is at one end of the world and the buyer at another end, he can only have a distanced relationship and nothing more. Sure, even then something grows somehow. But the garden cannot feed of itself if feeding of itself is the only thing.
A true gardener tends and cares for his garden, is on site and teaches other newcomers, who also want to become so masterful in gardening. He provides an environment that prevents others from trampling the fresh plantations dead or devouring young vegetables. He takes time and leisure for the training and also does not forget to take enough time to relax and calm down. He knows that his wealth stays if everyone sharpens the garden consciousness.
Specialize in apples, but don't become an apple idiot. Share the harvest with others by selling one part, investing another part, giving away a part and letting a wild part lead its existence. Leave room for surprise guests.
That's a lot to "chew" on :D
Thank you for your addition to the conversation!