it's totally insane man! have you lost your marbles? lol.
Mrs. J and I were talking about that just today.. how much smarter it would be to get a part time job and buy steem each week with what you make, then when the price goes up you'll have a huge amount of dollars worth in the account.
probably a good retirement in there that you could keep building.
and I think steem with make it don't you?
I've been thinking about ramping my Ebay back up. I've bought a few overstock pallets and done decent on those with ebay, but it's still a lot of work with a slow payback. I can spend 500 and get 5-6 thousand in merchandise but ebay ends up with about 1000-1500 of that for shipping and seller fees.
I do think steem is going to go up a good bit, the SMT's will probably help. I'm waiting on one of the apps to really take off, but none of them are really ready for "prime-time." I think one of their biggest issues is they are all just trying to be a front-end for steem and the blockchain structure is limited in the amount and type data it can store.(SMT's might help that.)
I seriously think an app will take off, if it will use steem for the base and add either another blockchain or database to store user stats and habits so you can build feeds based on algorithms and have a true direct messaging capability, and a few more features that steem just can't do. It really needs a community feature as well, as it is everyone has to use discord to really build a community. If you look at the "mainstream" social media apps, they all have features built in to create communities and direct messaging.
lol, I tried something new out last week. I turned this thing in on Wednesday, and they are just now publishing it. https://steemit.com/curation/@thedailysneak/the-daily-sneak-15-september-2018-with-guest-curator-coinsandchains