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Let’s make an exercise of imagination.

Suppose somebody finds an empty place somewhere in this world and, by lack of a better name, decides to call that place Precious Paella Place. Let’s think of that place like some sort of a country (I was about to call it an “ecosystem” but then I realized it might be too complicated).

So, in this country, you can obviously get a job, and, as a result for your contribution, you can also get paid. Let’s say you can get paid in two items: in paellas (obviously) and in empanadas. The main currency is paellas, obviously, but the founders of that country decided to also offer empanadas, only in a very limited supply.

You could always exchange your empanadas for paellas, if you wanted, or you could just sell your empanadas directly. The whole idea with those empanadas was to have some sort of a “stable” way to get paellas. Because, you see, the paella price wasn’t controlled by the country rulers, only the empanada price. And “controlled” is a bit of strong word. The rulers couldn’t really do much to control the price, other than throwing more empanadas on the market, if their price was too high.

After all, they were both made of flour.

All is good for a few years, until somebody finds a way to sell the empanadas in other countries, for a lot more money. Much more than you would get by selling it in the PPP (I will use the abbreviation from now on, it’s easier).

So now, that many people learned that you could get a lot of empanadas by contributing to this strange country, and that the empanadas are quite expensive in other parts of the world, we’re all witnessing a massive influx of immigrants. They’re all after those precious empanadas (although it’s written very clear in the country’s constitution that the main currency is paella, not empanada).

For a while, everything was great. People were making a lot of empanadas and huge profits were made by selling those empanadas overseas. Good times.

Of course, none of the “empanaderos” were aware that the main currency of the place was still paella. As time went by, they didn’t even bother to ask. They took everything for granted, flocking in like sheeps led by a few smarter dogs. All they wanted was that precious “empanada”.

Alas, all good things come to an end, and, eventually, that happened to the “empanada fever” as well.

See, while the immigrants were blindly following quick profits, the country rulers were making more and more empanadas. Because there were now far more empanadas on the market, their price went back to where the rulers wanted it to be.

And here comes the drama.

All the people who blindly followed empanadas, started to complain about its price. Oh my, oh my, the empanada price is flooring, we are so doomed, we are so rekt, we are so played by these rulers.

Did they go back to look at the rules of the country? Very few of them. The vast majority just took for granted the fact that there will always be precious empanadas to be made, although the place was clearly called PPP (Precious Paella Place).

Who’s fault it is? The country rulers’ fault? Why? Weren’t they very clear from the beginning that the main reward was always the paella? And that the empanada was just a helper currency?

By now you should have realized that the “paella” is the STEEM and the “empanadas” is the SBD.

If you didn’t, please start reading this post again.

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I'm a serial entrepreneur, blogger and ultrarunner. You can find me mainly on my blog at Dragos Roua where I write about productivity, business, relationships and running. Here on Steemit you may stay updated by following me @dragosroua.

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