Steem Chassis and not caring about opinion

I should go to bed, but I won't. Too many thoughts running through my head at the moment and it is interesting to see the massive sense of entitlement and nonsense that builds around hardforks. I was reading some of the comments on the @steemitblog SMT update and took note of the negative ones and flicked through some of their content.

"How does this help the content producers...?"

4 comments in the last 2 months, 2 of them on that post one a reply to their own comment on that post.

Perhaps they were dormant?
Nope. 4 posts a day bidbotted. 73 rep.

Lols.

Content producer.

It is like someone who tells you, "I filled your fridge, you're welcome."
And you get home and it is filled with cow manure.

Thanks buddy.

I am enjoying Steem more in the last few weeks than I have in a while and, I enjoy Steem quite a lot normally. The reason is that it is abuzz with activity with the vast majority of the development positive, and a great deal of the posts being negative. If there is one thing I have learned in my life from customers it is, they are rarely right and when they say what they want, they actually have no idea and need to be told.

This is essentially what people want Steem to be, The Homer.

But it is much more like this:

_source

You want your Lambo? Build it.

_{(Actually a 2017 Honda Acura NSX chassis)}
 
The chassis is there, it needs some work, but it is improving so that it can be built upon in many different ways. This is what SMTs are about, variation in experience for user groups including the way the economic engines run. Steem itself is not likely to always be the fuel that drives content creatiors to create, SMTs will be. However for now, Steem is available to earn and stake up - I suggest you do so.

This is not financial advice of course because, most people don't see Steem as a working economy, they see it as a stepping stone scam to sell into fiat or some other coin that has a better value proposition. I wonder how many of those other projects are going to end up manure in the fridge?

As said, I am enjoying Steem more these days because of all the FUD and whining. Not that I listen to it much but one has to take note of where it is coming from and if it is coming from places that act in what might be considered by people as "poor ways", then do you listen? I find clusters of groups of accounts that have failed, birds of a feather-ing together and as a result, have their suspicions confirmed, even if by people who have very little idea.

This is okay for them of course because they are getting exactly what they want out of Steem as a social media, a place where they can get their opinions supported. Everyone loves to hate the people who are doing it better than them, who are actually succeeding and assume that those who are, must have cheated their way to success somehow. Yep, if cheating is working, buying, risking, developing and whatever else it might take to be here. It sure as hell isn't 4 posts a day, and 4 comments in 2 months.

This is the age of the internet, there are plenty of ways someone can earn online but, they are pretty much all going to take some level of work that most people will either find tedious or uninspiring or, if it is in the wheelhouse of creative enjoyment, going to take a hell of a lot of work with very little payoff in the short-term, despite the most work needing to be performed in that stretch.

For the skilled content creators and especially those with a niche, they may be able to get income streams from Medium or Patreon or perhaps even Youtube - most people? No way in hell will most get any significant traction. So why be on steem?

Ownership. This is what it really comes down to as while many are trying to earn on their work, others are using whatever work they do earn on to stake themselves into owning a piece of the chassis. That chassis is where it happens because that becomes the model that is the,

one chain to bind them all and on the internet transact them.

 
This is the value proposition of Steem Power, not as an earner but part of the infrastructure that supports earning models to be built upon it. Now it is getting to the point where people are starting to see the potential of SMTs through interfaces like PAL and, this shit is only just getting started. The amount of possibilities that can arise on Steem and still have independent experiences is only limited by imagination yet, everyone is looking to earn on their quality posts as if that is going to be sustainable. How many Steem do you need today?

There are only 880K in the pool at the moment and that is being spread across a million+ accounts at some level or another. Next week there will be 880K too and the week after, thereabouts. it will even slowly reduce over time eventually to the point where there will only be able 200K in the pool at any given time, 75% less than now. At that point there will hopefully be 100 million+ accounts on Steem.

Or, 10 million+ and a 500 million+ spread across SMT experiences that use Steem as their backbone and transaction network. You want to earn on your work or, do you want to own some of the network? Curently it is possible to earn something on that work and own some of the network but, that time might be running out one day. Don't worry, you can always be an employee somewhere - perhaps.

You disagree with my views?

That is your problem, not mine.

 
I am under no obligations to care about your opinion or life experience at all if I choose not to as your experience in this life is your responsibility. Of course, I have friends here who I do care about, you might just not be one of them. You might fly with a different flock of birds and that is fine, that is your choice but, while you can say as you please, you are not entitled to have anyone on this earth listen to you. Freedom of speech doesn't come with an audience who is obliged to listen.

If you can't get people who you need to get to listen to you here, good luck shilling your content on the centralized platforms, because the amount of active self-promotion is likely beyond your capabilities, no matter how smart you think yourself to be. When it comes to invested work, it doesn't matter how long you spend writing your post, what does matter is that the work you do is the right work to accomplish your wants, needs or goals.

You can write the most fantastic poetry on earth, if no one wants to read it, that is their choice. It doesn't really matter what you have to say if you can't get anyone to listen, but no one else has to push your voice forward unless they choose to. Word of mouth is still a brilliant process for organic relationship building as it comes with a level of trust through relationships already formed. No one willing to recommend you? I wonder why?

It is interesting how many people want the upside of Steem, the potential, the future value, yet aren't willing to take any of the downside or heaven forbid, actually get their hands dirty and face some of the less savory jobs to be done. I am looking forward to HF21 for many reasons but one of them is the panic and anger that some people are going to express on the chain.

It isn't because I enjoy seeing the suffering but, perhaps at that point they will wake up to themselves and review their behavior. My expectation of maturity on the internet is much lower than my expectation for the crypto industry or Steem's success. Many people in this day and age will never become adults.

You might disagree with me. You might agree with me. Does it matter? If you think what you do in this world and on this blockchain adds value to your life, do it. Whatever you do though, if you think you want to benefit from Steem in the future and be more than an employee, that takes some ownership. And ownership means investment, commitment and maintenance.

Do as you please, your results are yours to own.

I enjoy my time here, you?

Taraz
[ a Steem original ]