RE: The Imaginary Precious Paella Place And The SBD Drama
The two tiny differences would be that the Precious Paella Place is intended to have rulers (who enforce rules) and that cutting down the empanada sales would be some religious hunt courtesy of the rulers, whereas Steem is supposed to be decentralized and just run and evolve.
Even though I still hold some loyalty to Steem and its original design (but mostly toward its future), my loyalty is not too strong for anything. I confess that my main interest is just to try to avoid starvation by getting some coin on here.
I'm still touched by the mighty efforts at devaluing the currency I was using to buy my meals and that I may now have to leave Steem if I run out of steam. What looked to be able to reward my efforts in January now seems to be a time sink.
The usual confusion between "decentralized" and "lack of governance". Being decentralized it doesn't mean there are no rules.
At that time you took the time to read about the whole process? Or it was just "as long as I'm getting paid, it must be ok, right?" kind of approach?
It's hard to be low on cash - and I'm not saying this to look down on you, believe me, I've been there many, many times - but that doesn't mean that all our expectations should come true. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
I enjoyed the high rewards just as anyone else here, but at the same time I also knew it will all come to an end.
The only sure thing is that we're all dying a bit every second.
I didn't enjoy them much, to be honest, in the sense that all I did was reinvest into post promotion to get some SP. I didn't cash out because I was reading some witnesses who didn't support the peg and I thought that they were somehow a majority.
I thought that it would all just increase, maybe stay at 3.5 for a while. But now SBD goes down, Steem goes down and the blockchain gets a steady increase of new users and I'm here feeling selfish while I desperately try to cling to the remnants of my previous earnings.
Want the truth or the customary "yeah I care" kind of response? I'm not a saint; I'm very far from that. I want Steem to succeed in the long run, but what I really want right now is to escape Venezuela. I can't do that if I don't have enough savings to survive for at least a couple of weeks in whatever country I decide to go to.
Our currency here has like 2800% yearly inflation, so one SBD is a monthly minimum salary, or was before, anyway. I can survive here, among the crime waves, the scarcity and the lack of everything. I'm built for chaos. But I don't want this to become my life.
I'm still very interested in Steem's long-term success regardless of whether I get paid or not, but if I don't get paid I can't be here. I would cheer from the distance and probably feel a bit sad that I couldn't ride the train into paradise, but if in a few months' time I'm not getting enough to survive, no amount of interest will give me the ability to stay.
But if I do stay, I will make sure to try to be good and promote everything and try to make everything grow and be better. It's within my ambitions. Just one step below in priority to my own well-being.
Believe it or not, I feel for you. I'm in a relatively similar position myself, as I am trying to escape my home country as well, before it reaches the stage where Venezuela is right now (because I know for sure it will be there, and it will happen rather sooner than later).
Betting on this type of revenue, though, like Steemit, for backing up such an important move, is a very risky bet. I made a lot of efforts to get and maintain a day job as a programmer and Steemit is just a bonus.
At some point in time, this situation will reverse: Steem will be the main source of revenue, and some programming freelancing will add just a bonus. But this point is not now and I need to move out now.
Wishing the best for you!