Nifty!
I am struck again by my certainty that we are approaching a post market economy, in which automation will completely eliminate capital.
Your little tale of the money tree illustrates how Steemit is actually at the shockwave of this transcendence, as our interactions form the basis for what is currently described as money.
This concept of money is an extension of the need for work to produce goods and services, as money has come to represent goods and services in a form that is transferrable and accumulable. Now, using tricks to get money, an individual can accumulate wealth representative of work that is impossible for an individual to perform.
Some people are possessed of work that they have not done, and they gain this work by depriving others of the value of the work they have done. A clearer illustration of injustice is hard to imagine.
So, what will money represent when work is not necessary to produce goods and services, when automation completely replaces the need to do work?
Nothing. Nothing at all.
We are in a transition period between a time when people had to work to get anything done, and a time when things will get done without people having to do anything.
Steemit is an elegant solution to making that transition to a world when our interactions, and our reputations, will be the sole source of value in our lives.
This, I believe, will be a better world by far.
Thanks for making those connections in my head, with your post.
No, thank you for such a well thought out response.