RE: A Few Words of Caution About Upvote, Resteem and Other Scammy Offers, from a "Road Worn" Steemit Contributor
A truly outstanding article @denmarkguy. I could not agree with you more.
I found much of what you stated to be true. In my short time on here, I worked hard to get invovled with others by commenting and being interactive. It takes a lot of time but relationships are forged. I have roughly 600 followers but I know most of them are people who simply followed me back. Like you, while not the same money, I get a very low percentage of my total followers upvoting me. That is okay since I know that only a small percentage of the site in general is actually engaged.
It is amazing how people do not use their heads. The world of crypto can provide spectacular returns. It can also offer some total duds. I would hypothesize that the latter is far more common yet people get sucked in to the offers of incredible returns. I say that believing that many of the major coins do have tremendous upside. I can see $25,000 Bitcoin at some point...I have a tough time seeing $500K or $1M. That said, even if BTC goes on the exponential curve, that doesnt mean every hair brained offer out there is the golden nugget that will change your life. BTC went through a lot in the last 7 or 8 years and still has more obstacles ahead.
I gave this a re-steem since it is important for people to read what you wrote here.
Thanks for the kind words, and the support!
I think we live in the age of the "lottery effect." More and more look at life and see it as a place where you need to make "none big score" and then you're set for life... rather than the traditional way of :dedicated work over time."
I don't quite know where to lay the blame... or of there is even blame TO be laid... but the "shortening" of everything probably has part of the responsibility. Instead of "articles" we communicate in 140 character tweets. Everything happens in smaller and smaller bits... including (it seems) how people think they can create wealth.