RE: What Can We Do About the Steemian Newbies That Ask or Beg for Our Support?
I think steemit is just a microcosm economy that reflects the real world economy in a few ways, once people secure all available assets there's nothing more to do than hope that you get some if you're late to the party. Creating valuable content is just a more elaborate way of begging for upvotes if you think about it, if you have capital to begin with you can just extract value from the platform passively through various means.
Beggars and spammers on steemit are just an outwards indicator of the global economy's health, there's way too much economic inequality and the lack of access to education, add to that the fact that not many whales speak anything other than English and we're basically reaping on steemit what global economic hegemony for centuries past by a few nations has sown.
Very keen observation @charitybot. And I agree with you--as within, so without.
Steem is also an incredible opportunity to help change the global economy, starting with a fresh perspective and rewiring or own ideas and beliefs about things of past and step into new potential.
Steemit is what we make of it, so we can either keep living a life based on money, scarcity, greed and control, or we can shift to being in service, supporting, honoring, respecting, and doing the loving thing.
Of course value can mean many things. It can be equated to having a financial reward, and/or a human heartfelt passionate value. I care more about community and connecting/helping others - money is sometimes the means to be able to facilitate that. But I would way rather have posts full of love and passion than one strictly created for monetary value. I feel it is a "build it and they will come" sort of scenario, so if we do what we love, the money will come. Therein lies the true value.
Contrast is essential to experience. Perhaps we need to experience one extreme to appreciate the other.
I loved your comment @charitybot! Thanks for engaging my blog.