I take solace in the fact that regardless of price, I look around and see really smart people building really cool stuff for this ecosystem. If that continues to be the case, the token price will eventually catch up. Personalities will come and go for various reasons, and that's fine. I suspect that when price recovers, many that have gone will miraculously come running back.
This has been a fun outlet for me and is a unique form of mining cryptocurrency, but it's still a speculative endeavor. If it ceases to exist, my story will continue on, as I have not gone all-in on STEEM.
Going all-in on anything but your own human capital is bad. I recall reading about a Chinese man who committed suicide after taking 100X leverage short on Bitcoin while it shot up in price. I suspect the ones who crack the most either have too much identity or too much money tied to this speculative endeavor.
Let's be realistic, there's still plenty of room for this experiment to fail. For now I'm accumulating some cheap STEEM because the risk/reward looks good to me. I'm powering it up which means I'm prepared to lose the majority of that investment should it not work out. My philosophy in most things is to always have one foot firmly planted outside the door.
This gave me an opportunity to have a reason to produce hundreds of digital images. I have the much higher quality files stored away, for printing purposes. Out of all that work, there's at least one for everyone's taste. I can still sell that, multiple times.
I wrote enough creative writing to fill a couple of books. I can still sell that, multiple times.
Average digital artist hourly wage where I live is about $30 per hour. I could get more. There's a lot here to prove myself.
My world never ends.
I feel the same way. I have about 80k photos in Lightroom from my travels and experiences, and this has given me the opportunity to actually curate them and learn about my subjects. I always figured I'd be doing this after I retire.