^ Dig this response. I feel the same way about the "point system" being a way to gamify following through on those ideas, in some way.

The "points" are more attractive to me than money has ever been. Hence me willing to invest a lot of time learning about steem when I've never felt super motivated or enabled to monetize my creativity before. It's definitely a good thing.

I'm excited for busy.org and to see where Synereo goes now that they're kind of starting over. The attention economy combines a thing I crave with a thing I need, so it seems good for me, if not everyone.

Maybe that's the future. An ecosystem of these different economies all based on different ideals and currencies.