RE: Gaming, Social Media, Incentivization and Feeling a Sense of Accomplishment
Many people — perhaps MOST people — see only the hype surrounding the size of the prize and pay almost no mind to whether or not they actually might win.
Bidbots have the allure to buy votes to make high payouts, and this gets into most of the ppl who use them...
Speaking of gambling... that's how Steem was designed, it says it int he white paper:
The economic effect of this is similar to a lottery where people overestimate their probability of getting
votes and thus do more work than the expected value of their reward and thereby maximize the total
amount of work performed in service of the community. The fact that everyone “wins something” plays
on the same psychology that casinos use to keep people gambling. In other words, small rewards help
reinforce the idea that it is possible to earn bigger rewards.
We are all crabs in a bucket like the white paper says, trying to keep each other down and stuck :/
I guess I have tended to have a pretty pragmatic approach to life...
Back in "another life" I almost went on the pro golf tour when I was 20. I was good enough to be somewhat competitive, but I never had any vision of being some great champion or "the best;" I just saw it as (possibly) doing something I enjoyed and getting paid for it. I saw the pro tour as the potential to just try to "place" every week and maybe make $2000 a week during the "season" as a result of being "decent" at it. "Winning" was never part of the picture.
As it happened, life circumstances eliminated that particular life path... however, the underlying approach to life has always remained; it even applies to what I do here on Steemit; I participate persistently, do my best, might be "top-500" in the community and feel grateful when that translates into a $20 post.
I've heard the "crabs in a bucket" thing before and generally reject it; my version is more like "If I can have it, I can help YOU have it, too."
I know. It's very UN-American and UN-Capitalistic of me...
...thanks for destroying my romantic vision of steemit!
😂😂