I've been sitting on this post for more than a week now. I thought I wouldn't publish it for some reasons. I re-stumbled on it and changed my mind. I've previously touched on some of the topics but a lot of the thoughts are pretty original, like the one on cooperation and abuse, at least in the way I've brought them up.
Me and my crew again!
The End All Be All Of Influences
Every public matters will be discuss on Steem with everything this entails. Steem is already infinitely more monetarily rewarding than Reddit.com. There's very few reasons to think Steem won't surpass Reddit's popularity.
Reddit is the 4th most popular website and also the most similar one to Steemit. There's also very few reasons to think Youtubers won't take the extra seconds it takes to post their Youtube video to Steem. This will assure them some extra exposure.
Some have already begun. The same can be said of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter users just to name a few. This process can be automated to some degree.
We're already seeing different Steem interfaces to better cater for the many different types of content.
Most functions which Facebook, Youtube, Instagram, Twitter, etc. fulfill can all be achieve on Steem, so sooner or later these websites face the very real risk of being made obsolete. If I owned a couple millions dollars’ worth of shares in these companies I'd seriously consider selling some to buy some Steem.
Everything Leads To Steem!
The most valuable posts will find their way to the top of the trending page. Most valuable, according to the votes of those who have the most to lose or to gain from the Steem price and influence.
People will look closely at what their most beloved human publish on the Steem chain and make sure to resteem if they feel it warrants it. The result will be that no important posts will be missed. Society will become inter-connected on a whole new level.
Anyone with anything meaningful to share will do it on Steem.
There will be rankings of all sorts that aren't yet available, like the most resteemed posts and the post with the most votes from different class of Steemians and many more.
Let's Be Grateful!
At this very moment, let's all be grateful for the sums of influences that lead us here, to the end all be all of influences, that's right, the present moment, ever here, now, the present moment operates its magic, always. So let's all be grateful for it.
Joy!
My Dad!
The sums of all our past influences determine what ultimately influence us at this very moment. To me, joy is the end all be all of influences, at least that's what my passed influences have lead me to conclude.
We all want to feel joy. Joy doesn't leave anyone indifferent.
Some might argue, joy isn't it, so let me state it another way, what feels best or right is what all of us truly aim for.
Cooperation Is Humanity's Greatest Asset!
Whenever people come up in a mutually beneficial relationship or symbiotic relationship the whole is greater than the sum of its part. New opportunities arise that were totally impossible otherwise.
The more people cooperate, the greater the opportunities are. Thus everyone is much better off when people cooperate. Cooperation is the greatest asset.
Abuse Hinders Cooperation
Everyone is better off when everyone cooperate but abuse or even the sole possibility of abuse can be enough to hinder cooperation to the point of it being totally renounced.
Abuse Leads Toward Mutual Destruction
Not only abuse hinders cooperation but it leads to everyone expending and ever greater amount of energy to try to abuse others and to counter abuse. This inevitably leads toward mutual destruction, the exact opposite of cooperation.
Finding Solutions To Abuse Is Of The Upmost Value
Abuse arises when people think they can get away with deceiving others. Logically then, the more people are scrutinizing the actions of others, the greater the odds of the deceivers to be caught and also the greater the repercussions of being caught.
The harder it is to be deceitful, the greater the odds people will be honest and thus the greater the odds everyone will be better off.
"Society can function even if everyone draws the wrong conclusion... at least there is no abuse." Dan Larimer
What We Value Determines Our Actions
That face I make, that's how I feel all the time!
What we tell our self and each other have fundamentally more value and influence than any fiat money or national currencies. What we tell our self and the situation we are in define what has value and this is in a constant flux.
It is the sum of all our influences, experiences, self-utterance, attentions, etc., that define what we value. Governments and other mafias', relics of the past, have huge influences on our current life experiences and value.
Some institutions create money out of thin air, while most live from pay check to pay check if not outright trespass at the hand of money's direct influence but that's not where I'm going with this post.
Steem: The Most Influential Network
16 Days Ago And Today
Steem is rapidly becoming the most influential network, the most influential conglomerate of most valuable communicated thoughts. Nowhere else on the web are there intrinsic incentives for people to be honest.
Indeed, companies all over the internet provide very real monetary incentives to everyone to relinquish to self-empowerment to instead empower those very companies.
"Every Steemians have as their highest interest the dissemination of the most mutually beneficial knowledge. In contrast, all other institutions, companies, governments, armies, etc., have as their highest interest the empowerment of themselves at the expanse of everyone else. Generals, elected leaders and companies always have more empowering knowledge than their subordinates and competitors and their power depends on it." (@teamsteem)
Influence Is Money
The money use by corporations are fiat money or national currencies which are, let's not forget it, created out of thin air for the purpose of growing the influence of some at the expanse of everyone else.
There is always value in being able to influence others, in fact, influence is the most basic function of money. Money is anything that has value or influence. Some money can influence people to work for us while some money/food influence our body to generate energy.
Thus Steem which is fast becoming the most reliable network for trustable information has very real value and its currency, Steem, could possibly become one of the asset with the fastest growing value.
National Currencies Are Used As Tools To Enslave
People should really ask themselves what is the value of "holding" enchanted paper or computer numbers also called fiat money or national currencies which are created out of thin air... while everybody else need to work their ass off in the hope of getting some.
I won't go into the details of money creation in this post but money really is created out of thin air and added to the bank accounts of some people, risk free. I know it seems totally impossible.
"The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled." John Kenneth Galbraith
In economics, the money supply (or money stock) is the total amount of monetary assets available in an economy at a specific time. (Wikipedia)
Be Uplifting!
My sister!
All Steemians have incentives to empower one another, to be honest, to cooperate, to be uplifting, all the while having incentives to try to understand one another on things they disagree on.
It's our personal experiences that give rise to what we value and these comes from our surrounding. Steem is one click away for most Earthlings. It has incentives for people to sign up, disseminate the most empowering information and weight the amount of information they put out vs its quality and impact.
Dish Out National Currencies!
There's also incentives for people to dish out fiat money to invest in Steem and other cryptocurrencies. It will only become more obvious as a growing number of people will be communicated the benefits of decentralization and the inherent dangers of centralization of powers and money creation.
Steem: A Free Market Solution To Abuse
When someone buy Steem they inevitably makes its price go up, thus leading to the total value of the reward pool to follow suit. Now think about this, every Steemians become wealthier as the price rise yet they are giving away more wealth through the reward pool.
The more Steem wealth is given away because of Steem rising price, the wealthier and influential every Steemian becomes.
This might seem counter-intuitive at first and that's because it is. What this situation highlights is the fact that "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts."
When we're thinking of value, we're thinking primarily in terms of enchanted paper value or dollar value but the more fundamental value can't be counted in terms of $ value.
Enchanted papers have no real value except for those under its enchantments or those using these papers to free themselves from those exact same worthless paper and more precisely those who create them and force its use.
The primary value being created is the experience Steem is facilitating, it is the positive influence Steem is having on a growing number of people.
Institutional Truth Is An Oxymoron
All of us Steemians are taking part in deciding what posts are making it to the trending page. Institutional "truth" and people's truth will inevitably clash. There's already a clash.
Some of the most "powerful" people somewhere are probably scared to death and trying to conjure up the Steem Genie back from where it came and if they aren't, it's only be because they haven't yet fully figure out what Steem repercussions will be.
There is no such thing as institutional truth. Ultimately all institutions are bound to the countries they operate in. They are subservient to those national and international laws and depending on their size will sometimes have to face the pressure of some of the secret operatives working for these countries.
There's no fundamental truth to the existence of countries. Most actions taken by countries are in accordance with the truth of only a very small group of its constituent.
The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. – Sun Tzu, the Art of War Lived (c.500–320. B.C)
All warfare is based on deception. – Sun Tzu, the Art of War
Let's Spread Joy!
Probably the greatest speech ever
Wealth Is Just A Tool!
I'm working on some more. They'll get better!
I'm here helping in the creation of decentralized systems which empower and bring Joy to all.
I'm not here to make only Steem great, I'm here to make everything great!
Wealth is just a tool and not an end in itself. Joy is what I'm all about.
EOS
EOS, @eosio, is Dan Larimer's latest project. I couldn't be more excited! (Dan Larimer is the software engineer who created Steem.)
Check out this real-time up-to-date spreadsheet calculating EOS market cap. Thanks to @nov3a4!
Approving My Witness
I signed 13 blocks yesterday and I think this is going to be my new steady rate. Thank you everyone!
I'm also very grateful to @vcelier who choose me to be his proxy for his witness votes. Thank you!
"What Are Steem Witnesses And Why You Should Support Them!"
https://steemit.com/~witnesses
Thank you!
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