there is a part of me that envies you. Every month for the last year I have said, right next month liquid is liquid and I need to start paying myself and there will come a day that I do. This is the life steem can provide for people and you are right, who can ask for more. the only problem is, right now STEEM can not sustain this for everyone. If the price of steem dropped to like .01 cent, would you posts give your enough to live off? and that what we have to prevent from happening by getting the balance right.
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I was here at 20+ cents a few months (?) ago. I scramble like mad and try to stay as cheap as I can. In Dec and Jan I wrote posts to say the rent was due and I did not have it - steemers came through for me and still do.
If the price goes to 1 cent, I am screwed like everyone else. I read your stuff and others and know this is a complicated mess. But I cannot starve and go homeless while you figure it out (or not.) I still barely know what a witness is or a token or an smt. I'm a weight loss coach and author, supposedly, even though I write minnow tips here. You big guys cannot expect us down here to do much more than post and interact. I did not even know what crypto was when I got here and few content creators do.
But I am also a nomad and something good will happen like it always does. I don't worry about the worst happening - ever. I am too busy and optimistic for that.
You are right about STEEM not being able to do this for everyone, but what job does? I have all kinds of strategies going here, and all kinds of balls in the air. I'm counting on the mainstream to get here and I am watching them come now. I feel like crypto is the future and it has far to run. In here, the dApps are the future and I am making good rewards from a few of them that were not even here last year.
Coingecko and rt got here. And a few others. This is a good place to post even if flawed. Will we get to a tipping point where people flood in? I hope so and I cautiously think so. One of my author friends came this week and a lot of my other friends are having friends come in. Drip, drip, drip.
In my case, I have a lot of supporters, sbi, autovoters and great places to post things I care about. And thousands of connections on multiple platform besides here that directly came from here. When I stumbled into Malaysia broke last August, @teammalaysia saved my butt and still help me daily.
Back when the price was high, I got enough money out to live for over 6 months. I was screaming at my friends to take money out and some did. Some of them turned around and put it back when the price was so low. Now they just about doubled it again. Other people watched the price go up and come back down again without taking a thing.
I take money every Tuesday no matter what the price and have since Dec 2017. This week I spent 9.40 myr (2.30 usd) on a delicious restaurant meal and my @tasteem post will get at least $4 in rewards. I feel like I live a charmed life, and I will do everything I can to help more little guys succeed too.
The project for 10K minnows is one of the best things I have seen since I got here two years ago. We need the baby fish to thrive and I am so glad someone is finally seeing that from the lofty heights.
You should definitely pay yourself @paulag, even if it it 1% a month. Something!!!! Go out to dinner and post your review on @tasteem. You can do it if I can, and your post will get more money than mine for sure.
Tasteem reviews are gold and you can take that to the steem bank!