RE: Steemit Disrupted Social Media in 2017 and Established "The New Labor Economy" | 5 Year Prediction
Hi Simon! Very cool posts! I know what you mean about losing the love...
I figure long term this kind of content will win though!
Lots of ideas I want to write about too! I gave it a start in this post,
It would be very nice to hear your considered opinion. If all your posts are going to be like this I'd love to trade considered comment for considered comment! Which I kinda hoped was the point of steemit !
My article is here: and talks about the exponential changes that are shifting us from the knowledge economy to the idea economy. Your post fits right into that! RESTEEMING!
My plan is to figure out what is going to take to adapt and share those lessons, maybe we can make a coalition of like-minded authors would be great to have some peer review structure of ideas eventually! (Mutual upvoting can't hurt either)
We should probably setup a chat in Discord. That seems to be where the whales party (and for that very reason). Ideally Steemit will evolve to be a platform for the highest quality content on the internet and while politics will always be a part of content marketing, if Steemit or a platform like it could be a "cream always rises to the top system," where someone with virtually no followers could come on it and post an article that pushes the limits of society and the knowledge base of their own comfort zone, as opposed to just shocking and trolling with the same result, then it will truly be something epic.
The idea is that you seek out what you don't know and put enough time into objectively researching it that the result you produce and share with the community provides them priceless value and is much more efficient than if they were to research the topic themselves.
When you take one step, God takes two. If you truly push the limitations of what you know, and are capable of discovering, then the next stage would be for your work to be peer reviewed and ultimately fall into the hands of more experienced experts on your topics, who can weigh in and provide even deeper context.
Each post on Steemit can be a world all in itself. Of course there will always be cat memes, and flavor of the moment rant garbage by creators capitalizing off whaleshares and bureaucracy, but if the community shifts in a way where there is greater incentive for creators to put the best of themselves in every post than we all as a community can find the 25th hour.
The alternative is to wait until big media companies take hold and flood the feeds with their agenda driven nonsense, then the opportunity is lost. In a way, we are talking about checks and balances for uncensored, thought provoking, heavily researched, peer reviewed mental nourishment the likes of which until now has only existed on the dark web or YouTubers savvy enough to establish significant patronage on Patreon.
This could be commercially adoptable truth. People follow the money. Trust me if the incentive is high enough it could inspire even Alex Jones to act like he has some God damn sense.
I long for the day when a month on steemit could be more beneficial than a year's worth of college education.
I upvoted your post by the way, and I follow you as well.
That is really much appreciated! Looking forward to your articles!
shared you post in the upvote slack channel of Steem Blogger Central, small now but over time should grow!! contact @sflaherty or steem blogger central on Facebook