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RE: ---- STEEMIT - Consciousness is Our Currency ----
Interesting article! You said steemit is still in its diapers but people just assume that it would be better in the future. Well like anything in life, I think that the Pareto distribution will apply here as well. But who knows what the future holds we can only assume. Every time we have a change in the system like a bubble burst or something like the industrial revolution it creates a huge shock, but also great opportunities!
I Think that now we are observing one of those times and steemit might be our opportunity at this moment. Better not to blink :)
What i mean is that this is only the beginning, mankind will have to find a way to evolve to different means of attaining an income as traditional employment decreases. This means that over time more opportunities such as Steemit will arise and "if" steemit evolves to match the demand it will reign supreme as it will be the first and longest running platform, will have a majority of the population of users, etc. As i said in the article there is no means for telling the future we can only speculate and create a thesis/hypothesis from the observing the data available and adjusting as much as possible. What i do believe is that as long as mankind survives we will continue to evolve.
Steemit is just another avenue in the technology chain using revenue sharing to get a choke hold on the behemoths that have come before it, it will never create a level to be the cure all of all that will inflict mankind, every persons conscious has it's measures of good and bad, one would have to accept the inevitability of the exploitation of others as consciously acceptable to achieve such a goal.
What is being discussed in the article is the future of human employment and income attainment as we know it and possibility of the changes to come, not a cure all of all that inflicts mankind.
The focus on steemit in this article is; that at the time of the papers writing that there was a need for such a specific tool to consolidate this thesis and now this tool is quite prominently in existence and growing. If steemit continues to innovate and evolve it can be the tool which brings the thesis to full fruition. However, it may be superseded by any other tool providing similar better results. but again no one can see the future.
Consciousness is referenced in this article as neither good nor bad, but as the form of currency we trade in on a daily basis. the fact that conscious effort is what is rewarded, as well as punished, at any given point in time. for instance you conscious effort to read and respond to the article has netted you $0.06 for now and possibly more if others on this platform deem your comment as effectively contributing to the conversation. This is the model at work, again in its infancy. However, as mentioned necessity breeds creation. If automation has as much of an impact as Elon Musk suggests then mankind will need to shift their efforts elsewhere.
"Enter steem and the steemit community." No, enter the internet and the internet community, the social construct already existed, the possibility of
a new revenue stream to sustain oneself via their conscious effort was
already into play as utube was given as example of one being rewarded
through their conscious effort to participate and yes that "very much"
included self expression in any form that would take.
What Steemit is is the conscious effort of some guys who sat around a table
and discussed how to, like I said, get a choke hold on the market known as the internet. How could they build a market and draw consumers of that market away from the traditional platforms being offered. They built a concept out of the same concept that was the conscious motivator for them,
and others, money. They asked and solved the questions of how do we pay
billions of people and how do we get people to contribute new material
for this platform. Steemit is a supervening tool based on a desire to gain
market share not some grand design to fulfill future employment needs.
It seems to me that the only purpose of your replies is to argue points that are not relevant to the discussion being put forward here, so just to be clear i will put them in point form so you can understand.
We are all paid for our conscious efforts in traditional employment and always have been. This means, pre steemit, youtube, internet.
The paper i wrote was based on Elon Musks prediction of Universal Basic Income (UBI) to support people in the rise of unemployment in the future due to automation, the psychological impact of this, and what "employment" may look like in the future.
After presenting my findings my peers did not like YouTube as my example for various reasons. some viewed my hypothesis as missing an element. "Enter The Steemit Community", which consolidated the gap in the thesis.
Those are the facts now for my opinions stated:
So given your comments i would say its likely that you probably did not read the article, did not read the article properly or lack the ability to understand what is being stated and discussed in the article. Regardless your arguments are an exercise in futility, i have no opinion on those matters as of yet and most certainly would not consider forming any opinions to discuss with you given your approach to the data presented so far.
So a quick reiteration for you: While writing a paper i discovered consciousness is what we are paid for, the paper had a gap in it, Steemit filled that gap, consciousness matters, we all matter.
so do you have anything to say about the topics being discussed or would you prefer to continue rambling of your tangents ?
I'll tell you what, I'll post this this weekend on a philosophy blog site and ask them if this makes any sense. Most are going to tell you that the construct already existed and so did the revenue stream for self expression through the use of sites like utube. That you claiming in one paragraph that it is our conscious that drives us to employment for survival also already existed before Steemit when you said
we rely on it for any degree of self-awareness, we depend on it for our very existence and self-preservation. I am not driving at your discovery of our conscious as part of our survival I am driving at giving credit where credit isn't due...Steemit. It is just another construct within a construct to which people profit from by the conscious of self expression.
Again, you are missing the point of what i have written, let me try make it clearer via the emphasis of particular words.
My PEERS in a peer reviewed scientific setting DID NOT completely ACCEPT YouTube (due to censorship, monetisation issues, etc. ) as a good fit in the thesis. STEEMIT is a far BETTER FIT as an example in the presentation segment of the hypothesis.
What you are failing to comprehend is that my thesis presentation made YOUR ARGUMENT and it FAILED peer review. If you have any concept of what science is you will know what this means.
Steemit has been given the exact amount of credit it deserves.... for CONSOLIDATING MY THESIS.
You can post it wherever you like, and thanks for sharing my article. But here is the dirty little secret... i don't care what you think. You lack the ability to even comprehend what the article is discussing and would prefer to argue the semantics of the facts which led to the reason the article was written in the first place, therefore your opinion is simply not valid in this discussion.
Further, The paper graded well and was held in high regard despite the discrepancy of my peers being divided on this one issue. so do your worst, your actions and words can not take away what i have achieved with this paper or how i feel about those achievements.