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RE: The Steem Blockchain as a "Benevolent" Platform for Internet Services
The world unfortunately seems to have more and more situations like these. I can't help but think it boils down to everything being "about money."
Of course, I have nothing against money; what concerns me is the ground approach: There is a huge difference between saying "I'm going to start a business because I want to make lots of money!" and saying "There's a need for this service, so I'm going to start a business and hopefully make some money."
In one, money "leads" and the service is more or less incidental; in the other, the service "leads." and money is merely a consequence. The functional manifestation ends up being HUGELY different.
Money gets a lot of undeserved criticism because it's where a society's diverse values and priorities are made clear. Almost any time two people find that their values and priorities are in conflict they can blame the problem on money, because money is the intermediate step between one person's priority and the other's.
People who let money lead don't understand what money is, and they aren't likely to earn or manage it as effectively as they could with a better understanding. A society's money is its most objective measure of the values of its people, and acquiring it legitimately requires producing what people value.
This is also why it's so dangerous to allow a monetary system to become corrupted and manipulated. Corruption of the money leaves a society with a distorted and warped value system and tends to have a corrupting influence on individuals as well.