RE: Reducing Poverty With Steemit

Hey Jockey! Your post posits an interesting premis: Will the lives of Indonesian youth be better with more money in their pockets? I agree and disagree. I think some clarity is needed. First, Regular money, let's call it capital is inextricably tied to the Capitalist Industrial System-- a kind of stunted artificial intelligence that is currently exploiting us and the Earth biosphere to see itself grow and spread. I've lived in remote indegenous villages untouched by the monster and have personally experienced cultures where poverty, pollution and inequality do not exist. However, when money touches these places, the downword drain of resources and exploitation begins. In one year I witnessed the damage of copper mine-- and the big salaries that came with it, for the villagers. Plastic, pollution, fake food, big cars, ugly development, they all followed inevitably. Crypto currency poses a super exciting alternative to this. Given that the currencies value is seperate from the old, dark and heavy systems that have so encumbered us, I feel there is hope. And here, I hopefully agree with you... if we can personally extricate ourselves from the Capitalist Complex, then there is hope we can lead by example for the next generation. Steemit may just be part of this luminous new transcension of the old! I am as excited as you to get going. Its going to be hard work though. The dark roots run deep through every facet of our lives.