What is it?
Steem is a new tool, so we have to think about how to use it. New tools have always reshaped the society.

What does it do?
Steem rewards people to tell what they think, to take pictures, to take actions, it has a very large range of possibilities, from rewarding people who are cleaning places by @cleanplanet, rewarding coders for open source by @utopian-io, rewarding students who are asking questions by @askanything and many more, and this is after 2 years only.

What is the goal?
The goal is to build a better society or just to have fun. What is a better society is the source of a very large discussion going on among steemians.

What does it have to offer?
Steem offer money for each participant. Money is an energy to build new things. People have to gather to set up goals and then to reach the goals.

What is it to you?
Steem is a fantastic social innovation but it can also be used to post porn, to play random games or to insult each other. Humans are very skilled for turning great tools in awful apparatus to destroy themselves. I would rather use it for education and recycling upvotes in solar energy.