The early adopters are the one that will reap the rewards and continue cascading the abundance mindset in Steem.
We have seen it before billionaires from Bitcoin as they got into the game early. We have seen Ned and the developers here have so much vested shares and delegating it to early adopters and investors who in turn are earning quite a lot.
They are able to freely support topics and advocacy that they care about as we see such a diverse range of STEM, Homesteading, Art, Literature, Charities and everything else in between being supported.
It is so exciting to be part of this change that will disrupt the scarcity mindset.
I was at the start of my career here in Steemit had that mindset that there was simply not enough votes to go around. We were taught to vote bet to two whales and each one of us were clamoring to get it and looking at each other's post earnings.
People are greedy and jealous because we have been taught ever since that for all the actions we do we always had a What's In For Me. This mentality of WIFM has made us treat other people bad as we see them as a threat in our earnings.
The Steem community is large and there are other people from minnows to whale that will like our content. With that thinking that I should not be limited to my local community that is when I thrived.
In turn I now learned the power of the gifteconomy. It's not what you earn that fully matters. It is what you give out that it important. The more people that you communicate and help, the more blessings are returned to you.
Sure you can sit in a corner and keep upvoting yourself and eventually you will power up but your grow was not organic nor have you created influence in the community.
This power is meant to be shared and for everyone to grow and be ambassadors of abundance.
Exactly. It is a different model completely from what we are accustomed to. Embracing that mindset is difficult. It is not easy to get go of our fears since we know them so well...they are comforting to us in a strange way.