RE: STEEM: The easiest Shill in town?
I don't mind the caution, even if what people hear about STEEM and crypto in general are exaggerated, half truths, or essentially blame it all.
However, with some time to step back and see what's going on, monitor the situation for a while, get more used to the concept, STEEM will make the most sense to folks.
Right now, though, there apparently continues to be a bottleneck to the on boarding process, unless you are bot farms. Individual accounts are all across the board in the time that it takes for them to be approved. So, there are people out there trying to get in and can't.
If some of your friends were stuck in that time loop for a while, I imagine that some of them would lose interest and probably wouldn't come back, like some others that have been reported.
I find it hard to talk about STEEM to anyone, at least not in a major advocacy way, just because, unless it's a pure investment, the ecosystem just isn't ready yet. There's plenty of good things happening, and early in is better than late to the party, but you still have to have a higher tolerance for whatever you want to call what goes on here than I think the average person cares to or has the capacity to do.
So, anyway. STEEM in and of itself is not a hard sell. It's seeing the goings on here that can become a detriment. :)
Indeed. I agree with the points you raise.
As a pure investor, it is possible for the most part to stay clear of the 'goings on' - they become more apparent, the more you look I guess.
Despite all this I am still pro STEEM, but as I mentioned in another reply, it's certainly worth keeping your eye in on the goings on elsewhere too.
Absolutely. I'm sure there are plenty of things going on out there, EOS being only one of them, that we all should be aware of. I'm counting on the fact that decentralization and freedom is a concept that more and more people will want to be a part of, and the vehicle to get there won't be as much of an issue as is the attitude or the behavior of those involved.
We are really in the middle of a tug of war between a pure investor mentality and a pure worker, consumer mentality, and it really needs to fuse together. Everyone needs to be looking out for what's best for the long term of the platform, rather than what potential profiteering you could make. Even in that situation, some people are going to do better, whatever the reason. It's just the way things work. But there does come a point where enough is enough when it comes to earnings. I've actually experienced that threshold, and it was surprisingly low, though higher than what most people achieve.
I think in there lies the issue. Getting to the point of enough, and then realizing you're there. Enough being what you're situation calls enough, not what some bureaucracy or other entity determines is good enough.
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