Day 5: STEEMCEPTION (Part II)
In my previous post, which you can read here, I introduced the concept of the First Awakening through which we pass as new Steemit users when the expectations we have as a result of a misleading promotion of the platform clash with the real experience. This awakening consists of discovering that achieving success here is not so easy, that it requires more than we had imagined.
We realize that to obtain decent profits we need to be voted, but not any kind of votes, votes from users with a greater level of influence in the community (with a greater weight), called whales. Many enter this new stage of knowledge of the platform with a new mentality: Do our best to develop good content, beg for a whale to look at our work and support us, and if this happens take the profits to satisfy our immediate needs.
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Of course, there are other things that people do to increase their income such as the use of bid bots, participate in one of the many contests that are out there, etc. But generally the central focus is to beg for a whale to sustain them. In the first part of this series I ended up with the idea that this mentality represents other level of sleep. I compared it to the movie Inception, directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
In this film the characters entered into someone's dreams to implant ideas at a subconscious level. A peculiar aspect of the film is that dreams were created inside other dreams, that is to say, several dreams nested one inside the other and that to wake up completely to leave the mind of the person they had to wake up from each level of sleep. This concept came to my mind when I meditated on my own experience here, because I have come to the conclusion that the mentality described above and after the First Awakening does not lead to a complete experience within Steemit.
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Those who manage their blog in that way are still sleeping either by ignorance or necessity, because this mentality is limiting and prevents reaching everything that this application offers. In my post titled "Our Canine Mentality" I concluded that most of us have something in common with the Dogs: we were accustomed to depend on others. In the case of Steemit, we want to depend totally on the generosity of the whales and their bulging votes because the votes of users like us, as well as ours, do not really worth much.
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But... Who are the whales? They are users with a much larger amount of Steem Power (SP) than ours. The number of whales is scarce for the total number of active accounts, so they can’t support the content of all. What those who still sleep do? They withdraw their earnings in SBD or STEEM (apart from the amount gained directly in SP) to solve short-term problems instead of investing part of those profits to accelerate the increase of their own Steem Power so that one day they can break the cycle of dependency and take charge of their own destiny.
I do not intend to judge those who do so, there are many possible reasons of this behavior. As a resident of a country that is going through a severe economic crisis I understand that this can be a sensitive issue and that the urgency of covering the basic needs to survive is real. But as I wrote in a comment not long ago, what surprises me most is that this behavior also happens in countries with a more stable economy than my country. What is the excuse of the latter? Why are they still sleeping?
We realize that to obtain decent profits we need to be voted, but not any kind of votes, votes from users with a greater level of influence in the community (with a greater weight), called whales. Many enter this new stage of knowledge of the platform with a new mentality: Do our best to develop good content, beg for a whale to look at our work and support us, and if this happens take the profits to satisfy our immediate needs.
Of course, there are other things that people do to increase their income such as the use of bid bots, participate in one of the many contests that are out there, etc. But generally the central focus is to beg for a whale to sustain them. In the first part of this series I ended up with the idea that this mentality represents other level of sleep. I compared it to the movie Inception, directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
In this film the characters entered into someone's dreams to implant ideas at a subconscious level. A peculiar aspect of the film is that dreams were created inside other dreams, that is to say, several dreams nested one inside the other and that to wake up completely to leave the mind of the person they had to wake up from each level of sleep. This concept came to my mind when I meditated on my own experience here, because I have come to the conclusion that the mentality described above and after the First Awakening does not lead to a complete experience within Steemit.
Those who manage their blog in that way are still sleeping either by ignorance or necessity, because this mentality is limiting and prevents reaching everything that this application offers. In my post titled "Our Canine Mentality" I concluded that most of us have something in common with the Dogs: we were accustomed to depend on others. In the case of Steemit, we want to depend totally on the generosity of the whales and their bulging votes because the votes of users like us, as well as ours, do not really worth much.
But... Who are the whales? They are users with a much larger amount of Steem Power (SP) than ours. The number of whales is scarce for the total number of active accounts, so they can’t support the content of all. What those who still sleep do? They withdraw their earnings in SBD or STEEM (apart from the amount gained directly in SP) to solve short-term problems instead of investing part of those profits to accelerate the increase of their own Steem Power so that one day they can break the cycle of dependency and take charge of their own destiny.
I do not intend to judge those who do so, there are many possible reasons of this behavior. As a resident of a country that is going through a severe economic crisis I understand that this can be a sensitive issue and that the urgency of covering the basic needs to survive is real. But as I wrote in a comment not long ago, what surprises me most is that this behavior also happens in countries with a more stable economy than my country. What is the excuse of the latter? Why are they still sleeping?
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