This is such a feel good post expression @barge

I was going to touch on some points you made here, but it would mostly be a reiteration of expressing why I feel the same.

If I've ever truly hated anything in this life experience, it is fiat currency, but really the idea of "money" in general. My Dad raised me to believe that money doesn't buy happiness, but having enough of it, gives you the ability to "choose" your misery.. he would say..

Well, I don't like to believe there is truth to this, but I can think back on an experience or two where money would have been quite convenient. Shit, even right now.. I have a myriad of things I need to buy, and money isn't a commodity, and oh how convenient life would be ATM if I could buy a big old bag of some ganja..

I don't want to get on a rant about the system we've all been indoctrinated into without consent. It's a helluva convo, but I want to stick with feel good, cause that is how your words make me feel right now.

I've always been really terrible at saving, mostly due to being poor, but I've always desired to have some sort of long term savings goal. So when I stumbled onto Steemit last December, my thinker started ticking quite a bit. In relevance to the things that are so wrong with the monetary system, the things that are so wrong with centralized profiteering corporations who tailor data to manipulate, deceive, and ultimately coerce people into buying their products , the fake news, the mindless drones immersed in their instant gratification feeds.. what am I missing..

bigPharma, bigOil, bigManipulation, bigBullshit.

All bullshit.. So my thinker started ticking and I thought: "What is this going to be 20 years down the road?" I have never seen anything like this.. The ability to monetize the mind, in a way where opinion/content is either agreeable collectively or not agreeable collectively, and not to the whims of a centralized overseeing oligarchy of individuals (of course it isn't a perfect system yet, but the idea is sound IMO). I also thought this would be a great savings plan for mine and my children's future, also while earning stake power to help others? Rad.. I can only imagine what kind of value Steem will have if it's still around in 20 years, and/or goes through a major mainstream adoption.

I don't really care what the value of Steem is right now. For those who utilize Steem to survive, I would love to see a moon so people can live better, but I've put money in, not taken out, due to the long term goal. I was really expecting this dip, and I expect a moon in the coming months, likely followed by another dip, who the hell knows.. but it doesn't have any bearing over how I feel about Steem. I think what bothered me the most during this dip, is seeing so many people power down, and beat feet. It gave me a sour taste once again about people, which I am unfortunately predisposed to believe most people have fucked up/fake values. If I say I am not leaving, I'm not fucking leaving! Simple as that.. but I cannot expect everyone to keep things real. Social media has done a bang up job at helping manipulate people into exude fake persona's.

Dude I really loved this post. I might even read it one or two more times before the new year!

And btw, I was getting really excited about @dmacs, so much I was ready to delegate. Good thing @whatsup listed a disclaimer or half of the Steem blockchain would have probably already delegated.. 🤨🤣