This made me smile.
I like the symbolism and analogues you use to describe the different people and users.
The more important question is - how do you drive your car without destroying this little world you have created?
You also make some great points about how people can contribute. I think we have already started to see this in the tremendous expansion of what people are doing with the platform. I am constantly amazed by the tools people are producing on Steemtools.com - just amazing and I wish I had those skills (maybe someday).
Also the robot whale thing was discussed a few days ago by @jl777 - he was thinking of something that votes using partial automation so that it is under partial human control - bit like a multisig wallet but one sig is held by the bot one by the human. I don't have the link to hand but he can explain it better himself - he is often in the #witness chat channel.
As for SBD business - I actually got an idea of the potential yesterday when I was posting about a talented artist I know @galamirissa she makes beautiful animated gifs out of any piece of photography and paintings etc.
Someone suggested in the comments that they would like to get their own photos and avatar animated this way and that others would probably like this too. This could easily be done in SBD and the apparatus is there for someone like Gala to start doing it already. Doing the same with bitcoin would not be as easy and would require a lot of extra work on her behalf.
Anyway the potential is only just starting to be realised.
Also thanks for giving a shout out to @laonie - I can vouch for the fact that he is a really great guy:)
thanks for the @galamirissa mention, and yes, her stuff is great! I added her to follow. Thank you!
Great thanks for doing that.
Unfortunately she has been having a bad time of late. She used art as a means of rehabilitation from a severe illness.
Her work is amazing and when she first posted people were thinking that she was an imposter and flagging her work.
She is not a native English speaker and was having difficulty understanding about verification and what people were saying. (I can also vouch for her now if anyone else asks for verification - I am friends with her on Facebook also).
Sadly I didn't see her first post when all this happened so wasn't able to help in time.
I have tried to coax her back and she has tried making posts but they have sadly been neglected. I will continue to encourage her though because I believe her talent really deserves to be seen. I just hope she hasn't been permanently put off.
I drive the car because all the creatures are glued down with gorilla glue. I think people should start sending me the creatures they see themselves as! What do you want to be?
Not sure. Maybe a tiger but I'm not very ferocious and it's not a sea creature? Need to think about it. Anyway it's time for me to go to the gym maybe it will come to me there lol:)
"What do you want to be?" THAT is hilarious @stellabelle ! Good work on the art dash!
Great art dash. I love creative people who expand the view for everyone!