RE: Will Facebook kill Steem overnight?
No, I speak from a logical standpoint. The revenue stream is diverged and eventually it will not be sustainable and bankrupt the company. And yes, if you lowered taxes (if it wasn't already bankrupt) it would bankrupt the government. No revenue. How can you not understand simple math:
Revenue comes from selling ads, giving revenue away for no returns simply to get everyone to join is nonsense and let's sat that eventually everyone joins Facebook, what then? What is the purpose of giving money away for likes and shares or status updates? Incentives for more likes and status updates with the hope of clicking on ads? How silly are you, do you realize that the miniscule amount that one click generates isn't even a cent of a cent of a cent of a cent, and that's IF they clicked on an ad.
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Take Instagram for example? The model for Instagram isn't simply to sell ads. Instagram is about influence and influencers. It's about the attention economy. There is a scarce amount of human attention in the market. In order for there to be accounts with millions of followers there has to be a way for those accounts to get attention.
Right there you have all the market dynamics necessary to make plenty of money without having to use traditional ad models. What you're talking about is traditional revenue generating business models. Instagram isn't the traditional model and neither is Facebook or Amazon.
I admit you can make a case that currently the Facebook like economy which is a market of it's own, is currently not using a currency which people are valuing in USD. While Steem has the same upvote economy which is using a currency people value in USD.
If Facebook has a stable token and it's more stable than the Steem Dollar this changes things. Suddenly Facebook at any time could decide to integrate this token into Instagram, Facebook, or WhatsApp. This token alone would potentially kill Steem depending on how Facebook chooses to integrate it.
Facebook could choose to for example pay the user to watch ads or interact with certain accounts. The money would come from accounts which want more attention from users. Facebook could take a small cut of the profit, say 20%, and the 80% goes to the users. So there is no reason to believe Facebook would somehow lose money.
We see the model already on Coinbase with Coinbase Earn. When you watch a video and answer some quiz questions you earn tokens. This model scales, and Instagram could integrate it.
Who said it's about getting clicks? You did. I didn't.
To watch a video is worth more than a click. A click obviously has some value measured in some microtransaction, but to watch a video also has value. To watch a video and learn (pass a quiz) has much more value than to just watch a video, and to do some action such as to re-post something has as much value as your account is worth.
Just because you're not creative enough to figure out how many markets can be formed using a token on Facebook infrastructure it does not mean Facebook employees aren't creative enough to know what they have.
Steem made the mistake of not knowing what we have. And now we are in a position where the value of our tokens decreases continuously.
You think that the revenue stream is irrelevant, nothing more needs to be said. So yeah, who said anything about the revenue of Facebook, lol.
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