WHY STEEMIT MIGHT NOT GROW: HOW WE ALL ARE SELFISH

in #steemit6 years ago (edited)

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Ponzi Scheme got popular within a year. Using MMM as an example, I remember lying down on my bed in the hostel when a stranger came to hook me up on a conversation. He greeted me and then started lecturing me about MMM. I was confused and thought it's one of those scammers around. I never gave him my full attention.
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Days later my room mate and friend @mrfelix came around and started preaching MMM. He told me a lot of good things about the community and how it'll be of benefit to me. Long story short, I joined the community, participated till its declination.

Just hearing about steemit some weeks ago. When I made a little research about steemit, I discovered it had been up for over a year now. Then i begin to wonder why didn't i hear about it earlier.

The internet has now reduced the world to a piece of dice. And the university community I find myself should as well be an advantage and the most reason I should have heard about steemit earlier than now.

Buy why am I hearing about it a year after its lunch, COS EVERYONE IS SELFISH!

As there are no referral bonus, people have refused to share the goodnews with friends and colleagues. They be like, 'What's my gain if he joins?' Finding out they have no gain made them reluctant in sharing the information.
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I made a post to clarify how SELFISH EVERYONE is and how to go about deploying it positively for success.

Click HERE to read: https://steemit.com/motivation/@onyemacourage/how-to-succeed-in-life-being-selfish

I am not against selflessness nor supporting selfishness. Am only stating the fact that,

  1. Everyone is selfish AT SOME POINT in life
  2. Selflessness and selfishness is neither good nor bad
  3. It is how and when they are deployed in life that makes them bad.

These conclusions were derived from these premises...

  1. If everyone was not selfish. Steemit would have gone viral.

  2. If everyone was selfless AT EVERY GIVEN TIME, nobody would have successfully raised an empire

  3. If everyone was selfless at EVERY GIVEN TIME, nobody would have been an entrepreneur or inventor or made any record.

  IN CONCLUSION

If you claim not to ever have been SELFISH AT SOME POINT in life,

A. RESTEEM this post and don't he selfish with the content

B. Ensure you inform all your friends, colleagues, enemies , and loved ones about STEEMIT.

THANKS FOR BUYING MY PHILOSOPHY!

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Totally agree - everyone is obsessed with the rewards pool and maybe afraid that too many new people will reduce their chance to earn? However, there are some other reasons people might not be pushing it out. Sign up is embarrassingly slow and difficult. Posting is clunky and tricky. I for one have only alerted webs savvy people as the others I've tried to show it to give up very early with half not even getting signed in. At steemit The dev team and Ned promised the sign up was a priority so hopefully we'll see that streamlined very soon. Meanwhile one point of selfishness you didn't touch on- people curating only to earn rewards and not on content supporting newbies.

Thanks brother. I appreciate your honesty and wisdom in seeing my point.

I agree with you sir... Reaching out to someone about steemit is the better version of you.
Its an expression of love and commitment in sharing value to some other person... If you ask me i would say there should be any referal bonus on steemit because it would not the system saturated with inactive accounts.
I love you content sir... Keep it up
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Steemit has its problems, its best we got at the moment and hopefully will be improved over time until something better I will do my best here!

Thanks for following me back!

Yes sir. Even though we must be selfish to earn., but we must be selfless to earn more.

Thank you for Using #promo-steem tag, Promote steemit by inviting your friends and your family!

hi,
onyemacourage , nice to read about you.
am jeevansantoshi from india,am also new on steemit and welcome you to steemit.
i have followed you.So,can also follow me.
Best of luck!

I agree and hope for the best .... Upvoted and followed

Wow humbled followed bk

yes we are selfish and thats why we make our friends to join steemit, so that we can get their upvotes

Wow you got it.

I think I agree with you on that. People ain't taking the good news out there because there is no referral bonus.

I believe @mrfelix reached out to you because your coming to MMM would give him 30% referall bonus from all your deposits in MMM.

We know steemit just need to be selfless and reach out to others. The more people we have using steemit and transacting with steem. The better the price of steem.

Wow. That's it. Am glad we all are seeing my point. Let's knock off the mindset and go for the gold

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