TBH, I think you are losing your touch. ' Blah, blah, blah, stop whining and shill harder'. Whatever dude. Do you really believe that the good content that doesn't make bank is really that shithouse? Sure, a lot of it is pretty bad, but not all of it. Yeah it's a capitalist system. But even if this blockchain is irreducibly capitalist to the detriment of creative merit - not that I'm 100% convinced that it is is - it needn't be that way on very blockchain everywhere. I mean, what you wrote is till pretty good, but it's starting to sound like you are making excuses for a system that deep down you know is a bit fucked up, but that you rely on nonetheless.
Do you feel bad? Is is snagging at your soul? If you are sober enough, do you occasionally wake up at 3am feeling guilty, but don't have the balls to admit to yourself why that might be?
If the answer is yes to any of those, it's probably nothing to do with your continuing support of an unjust system - it's just irritation with people who keep gratuitously expecting that they should ever do more than fight over the crumbs of those lucky enough to be born to rich parents. Well boo-hoo motherfucker, those inconvenient people with their outrageous expectations or fairness and unreasonable demands for food and shelter aren't going away - there's more an more of them signing up for Steemit every day. So strap your self in buttercup. Whining? Pfft! You ain't seen nothing yet!
The world has been effectively conquered by force of the most brutal kind and it is being wasted and potentially ruined by the same force which can only exist because of people willing to defend it for them like guard doggies. If the animals and the trees die, and the ocean life is all destroyed, his silly "capitalistic", or whatever other system a person wants to defend isn't going to be of much value because there will be nothing left. All of it wasted, because in this vast reality, so many seem to actually lack the ability to imagine anything beyond this program which has been installed by their captors.
I like to have the ability to buy things just like most other people, but none of that matters if we have wasted everything this world has to offer because we are so focused on a fictional construct intended to enslave us that we shoot ourselves in the foot. I don't care what @haejin does, because it isn't my business. We can all see the problems with the behavior of ourselves, and others if we choose to look at it, however, the only behavior we can truly change is our own. The changes that will make this world a better place will have to come from within each of us.
If we waste time complaining about what others are doing (this does not mean pretend things we think are bad are not happening) then we are not spending time doing what we can do to create a better way. There is that quote about not being able to change things from the same level of consciousness that created a problem in the first place...
The value of this platform and how it either increases or decreases will be the collective creation of each and every one of us on here in the long run. Even if we find out one day that it's created by an alphabet agency or the same people behind the banks and that @ned was really a front person like the character playing "Zuckerberg" ... then that will simply be a reflection of where we are at this place in our development as a species that we chose to allow it to manifest in the first place. When we stop permission ourselves being treated by people who's highest evolutionary achievement seems to be brute force and vampirism, only then can we reach our highest potential as a species. I think #Steemit can be utilized as an effective tool in our positive growth as a collective. We'll see how that plays out eventually. ;)
He created this post in hopes people would click. Normally I would not have, but I chose to... even though it has me SMH, he did it because we permission it. When we stop rewarding the content we don't like with attention, and our own energy... it will eventually burn out on it's own. Those who create it will be forced to create something else if they want upvotes from the people they have sat in judgement of. If they upvote their own posts knowing they are crap then to each his own, there's a larger reason for the imbalance causing that behavior and the crap content is a distraction from the root problem. That's how I view it, anyway.
#UnFucker
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Now THIS was an interesting comment!
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My point is that people are using @haejin and the way the system works as an excuse for their uninspired content. If they truly believed in their content and wanted to make a career out of it like LITERALLY EVERYONE ON HERE SAYS, then they'd invest a little money into promoting it.
But the cognitive dissonance of someone who unconsciously knows that and the fact that they probably don't have any money to do so is too much for their ego to handle. So they look for something outside themselves to blame. @haejin is an easy target. The Steemit platform is an easy target. After all, there are SO MANY people who agree with them.
Where is this great content? Please show me. I'd like to see a well-written, properly formatted, spellchecked and grammatically correct article that is either informative or entertaining. Preferably both. I can't say I've ever seen anything like that on here, other than my own posts of course.
The fact is that it just doesn't exist on here. And if it does, then the creator needs to increase their desire to make a career on this platform. Because there are plenty of places where they can post and not get a single comment, response, or like for their contribution. People get butthurt on here because muh STEEM coins.
LOL, really? Not even a molecule of guilt. I earned every dollar I ever made because I produce something of quality and am smart enough to figure out how to profitably promote it using a system that I've fucking explained a million times. But people don't want to listen. It's so much easier to complain than to do the work and put some skin in the game.
I agree you have to invest something - even if it's just effort. Since I need the cash I have to pay pay rent and buy food, I invest my time, and plough my SBD back into SP, since it's not enough to buy a worthwhile amount of bidbot action. I'm lucky in that I've had a few upvotes from @curie, which means I've been able to do this relatively quickly compared to many people here.
On that note, you want to find something that's properly spellchecked and formatted, I'd start with the posts they support. Entertaining and informative? I suspect we have different ideas on what's worthwhile in that regard, so let's not complicate matters any further.
Are you saying that everyone who doesn't have the money to promotes themselves the way that you do is to blame for that fact? You think that people living in poverty are there entirely by choice? Put down that copy of The Secret man and take a hard look at the world around you!
I'm not saying that you didn't work hard to get where you are, because if your account is true, then you did. But some people will never get anywhere, no matter how hard they work and how talented they are - and that's true both in life and on Steemit.
We can't fix everything in the wider world, but the big stakeholders on Steemit can change they way things work here - just a little. And if they don't, there might be another network that does figure out how to do it better. If that happens, and this causes people to leave, and the new money stops coming into the system, your lifestyle is going to get pretty austere unless you have some other income streams.