RE: Steem Blockchain´s Economy: DEVALUATION.
I'm just a curious student of economy, so I'm going to give my philosophical impressions of what is going on on Steemit today.
Rewards without "proof-of-brain" only devalue Steemit and the self-esteem of those who buy votes for "To Have" rather than "To Be".
Steemit will be no more than a mechanical assembly, like any other social media with adds, and empty content, by using a strategy that wants to attract people to make an immediate profit in a nickel machine, when we need long time investors and skilled bloggers with meaningful commenting and discussions.
My content is being used for centralized publicity, and I always blogged only in places without adds, because the profit goes to the few that own the share of the lion on Steemit, that ultimately will leave to the same of group dynamics of centralized society and press, trying to swallow the rest of the steemians small wealth.
The comment section is now property of the bots, living no space for real humans to comment, because people just see the short term gains that slowly will dilute the impact Steemit could have in making centralized media obsolete, but it seems to suffer from Freud's envy concept because Steemit will be more centralized and automated living no space for human interaction as the real values and future evaluation of Steem.
The Steem blockchain is decentralized, but token accumulation in the hands of a few, that guides the politics of short therm profiting, just like the rest of the banksters, states and social media giants.
The steem economy today is based now in finding ways for passive income ruled by bots, that can't virtualize the vision and mission of creating content with"proof of brain".
Sreemit is suffering from the same syndrome of the economy on the western civilization, we don't make things, just do financial short term speculation that eats the GDP of the countries.
Traders and Investors are radically different, the former is totally detached from the object of investment and is driven by "sell-high"/ "buy-low" cold numbers, while the later are immersed in a total emotional involvement with the capital and has more tendency to "hodl" and perpetuate the love relationship with the purchased value even in the worst crisis.
Excellent comment Extremely valuable!
Thank you very much for giving me the privilege of having you in the comments section of my humble publication.
The concept of "brain test" was the pillar that supported Steemit. Upon it, it was built, and achieved its splendor.
Proudly the writers showed us the effort of their work and were certain that this was going to be recognized.
Steemit was novel. Precursor, maybe.
This attracted more than a million new users. The tokens were dynamically distributed. Cures were the order of the day. This motivated us to have better content quality every time.
We must accept the fact that today this is not happening.
I believe that this is an economic factor that is affecting us.
This would be The Sword of Damocles for Steemit.
I feel very grateful to you, dear friend: @charlie777pt
Wow. One of the best comment I've read today @charlie777pt
big thx!
Thanks a lot for my motivation that is getting lower because I miss the initial interaction before the bot era.
And I read what you guys are doing, I'm impressed with the job your nice community is making, and bringing back human dialogue and interaction, the only real life we live on Earth.
As a social psychologist, I'm interest in the dynamics of decentralized communities on the blockchain.
South America, Africa (where I'm from and I visit a lot) and Asia (I was in Esta Timor this year)have to embark in this boat of a decentralized economy, but with "active income" (work) for human participation, instead of "passive income" (no contribution) that is now the direction of steemit, replacing people with robots calculating financial benefits, without contributing to the vortex of Steemit, Human enriching Content, Human Meaningful Commenting and Human voting as the real value of the future of steemit.
The future is a ghost town in Cyberspace, that in some years will only deserve a visit as a Museum of history that failed to be written. and made a realizable utopia turn into a dystopia.
Thanks to all you guys. :)
Nice Work of real value...keep shooting
Oh wow, you are quite pesimistic @charlie777pt :)
I feel flattered :) Appreciate your kind words.
My impression is that there is more and more people on Steemit who understand how this platform works and what is it about. People who value interacting with others, sharing their knowledge, opinions and experience.
I also see how our community (build on common interest towards blockchain tech) is only getting stronger and I choosed to be optimistic :) I may be a fool, but a happy one :)
Cheers
Piotr
I'm a big optimist always suffering from the disease of realism.
My reality views can be seen as pessimistic because I have been for too long on Steemit to see the reality changing from the initial vision.
I've been analysing the statistics of steem in the way the numbers of active users versus the bot users and the number of comments made by human dialogue vs the monologue of the bots in a ghost town in cyberspace, with a lot of lamps in the streets, like an empty circus, with no human presence just "botties" talking to themselves and their calculating machines.
We need long term investors looking for "active income" instead of cold-blooded traders looking for fast "passive income " of selling high/buy low.
The goal of human interaction is really low these days.
Thanks for telling what you feel.
Another thing I learned in communities, is that if we want people to change we must talk about the behavior and actions (visible) of the people opens the dialog, instead of the character traits of the person (invisible and unobservable) because it blocks dialogue and does not promote mutual growth.
I'm happy to know that you are feeling like I felt 3 years ago.
We need new people with a positive view because I've seen the best content-gold-producers, getting tired and disappearing.
ANd now there are new emerging social media platforms on the "block", had been creating solutions for the model of Steemit, the first king of "blockmedia".
Cheers my friend
Dear @charlie777pt
The reason why I'm feeling this way is because I treat Steemit as a platform that allows me to get to know valuable people within blockchain industry.
Those kind of contacts will allow me to create business opportunities in the future. This I'm sure.
Knowing right people is an extremely valuable asset. And it's asset that cannot be taxed :P (luckily, maybe one day we will have to pay taxes depending on how popular we are hahaha).
Yours
Piotr
And don't lose your motivation @charlie777pt :)
BE STRONG
Dear @charlie777pt
Definitely your explanation is very complete, honoring your avatar tremendous point of view, without redounding to the point.
Thank you for sharing with all those who, in one way or another, if we interact like other humans, we want to make steemit a platform where content is created that is worth reading and continue feeding our vague knowledge.
Greetings from Venezuela