Everything you said is true.
The most important thing here is not the money, the most valuable thing from Steem is the connections the platform try to make in order to change reallity faster than with normal means we have available today, I mean, like democracy is full of bureaucracy and slow solutions from politicians.
Witness and everything behind the frontend is really interesting as an experiment trying to bring answers and better aproach of the social problems as a community, all together, unite instead of divide, positive circles.
Greetings friend, @hijosdelhombre.
I'm glad we share the same criteria.
The connections between human beings. The exchange of thoughts, of ideas, of cultures. That's what really is important.
As you say it is like an interesting experiment of global magnitude, because here in Steemit there are no borders.