RE: Why a Rising Steem Price May Not Be Your Friend - @J2R is Leaving Part Three
It's a toughie... we're trying to convince people to put their effort into this platform instead of the platforms they've already invested years into. The main benefits is that no one is profiting off your data, you're not censored and no one person or company controls the platform... but the challenge is that people have all their lives and all their friends on these other platforms and may not really care about the data or the decentralization....
... so then the only thing that Steem has going for it then is that you can make money for your effort... but it really is so hard now, and the reward/effort ratio is a big whack for new people... who then get discouraged when they see 'lesser quality' earn more than their own work (not understanding that Steem is more about relationships than quality).
I'm not really sure what the answer is either... whales could earn more SP back in the day, but that SP didn't really amount to much when converted back to USD. It'll be interesting to see where we're at a year from now.
I've found it much easier to make new friends here, than to make money on facebook :)
Hahahaha, great point.
I'm sure most people have found though, that it's easier to make money elsewhere than to make money here... So Steem has a branding problem... if we take the expectation of making money out of the equation altogether, and make it about banding with like-minded awesome people instead of people we happen to be related to or went to school with, then people would love Steem more. If they're only here for the moula then they'll get burnt out and leave.
I'm okay with that. In fairness it was the immutable nature of the blockchain that really drew me in. The idea that what I write here can't be altered by anyone.
It was and still is also a real meeting point for the anarchist/voluntaryist/freedom loving community, so it's those relationships too.