First, let me qualify the following statements with a background description. My ability to find and exploit weaknesses in systems landed me an incredible job working for the global elite. For seven years I worked with the wealthiest families on this planet, behind the scenes, making sure that their “connections” were safe and secure. During that time, I saw a reality of this world that few ever see and gleaned enough information to be able to walk away from it all.

Nowadays, I live comfortably on a small island with my own farm and resources; as far out of the system as I can stand. I still keep some avenues open to occasionally get a glimpse of the goings-on upstairs though. Among the many things I would like to convey, the most pertinent on this platform is that the subject of Steemit has warranted its own meeting within the ranks of the elite. Let me explain some of the reasons why.

One of the fundamental points to keep in mind is a concept the wealthy elite have mastered and slowly monopolized since the time of King Solomon, wealth IS “life energy!” Explaining the concept in detail is another post but I can tell you that with the fog lifted, one can see how the rivers flow!

You may have made a good trade… but then lost on another. You win some, you lose some, right? “Hold on for the long term” we’re reassured by the banks. Great, let’s see where that plan gets folks in the next year or two…
The people on Main St. dutifully pour their hard-earned cash into investment banks on Wall Street to put into the stock market for them… and those investment banks gladly oblige, for a fat fee… which they then invest somewhere else!

The stock market is really a cunning diversion for the masses… a distraction stopping them from discovering that recessions, terrorist attacks, elections, stock market crashes… none of that means anything, as long as currencies exist the life energy flows.

Whoever or whatever wins over the currencies defeats the system, even tax can be avoided depending on the "time frame" of transactions. The great thing about the currency markets is that it’s a 24 hour market. Cryptocurrency scares the big banks for this reason, and Steemit scares them to the bones with the ability to exchange within minutes. Time is not money! Timing is money! You can pick and choose when to use this.

Neither the platform nor its CEO can explain where they’re pulling revenue from. How does a platform that has no source of revenue of other than investors afford to pay out millions of dollars to its members when there’s no money coming in? The banking elite knows how they do it, the same way the banks provide "money" for its patrons in the form of currency. A currency requires faith, OUR faith in the currency is usually all we think of but there is a flip side that Steemit exploits. An entity providing currency also has faith that you will USE it! When Larimer described major points of Steemit, speaking to CoinTelegraph he broke it down into eight points:

No transaction fees. Mandatory spending. Liquidity rewards to bootstrap market trading. Everyone who provides value should get a stake. Don't ask for money, ask for time and energy. Build value for people who don't buy in or use the platform (readers). Natural marketing and SEO through producing content. Make it fun.

Of these, the single ONE that made the elite wince; albeit for a moment was...Don't ask for money, ask for time and energy.

I know there are many savvy and successful people who have a high level of mastery over their finances -which equates to having money or not. What you think you know about money means that you can play the game, even make some rules, but you'll never be able to change the time it takes play.

You may have a lot of time, or money, or energy. You may waste a lot of time, energy, or money.... compared to what?

In the both systems, money is created out of thought, it's just an idea that you buy something. When you purchase a bottle of dish soap, you don't actually buy the blue goop inside, you exchange some of your “life energy” for the thought of what the blue goop can do. The banking cartels have a monopoly on producing currency void of thought but with the promise of being able to use it. Steem can provide currency with the promise of thoughts which are not void of usability, and what do you do with your “life energy?” USE IT.

It's a subtle mind twisting concept that has more implications than what appears on the surface but, the fact that Steem was able to “produce” even 1$ proves a hairline fracture in the system, and that little fracture has sent a signal to the head!
Well done to all of the Steemians thus far, I hope that intellectual freedom and power to those of us “not in the club” will prevail. Continue to exchange, exchange and exchange some more. The more people who interact with Steem, the more it can break up the timing schemes.

As a last tidbit tribute to those above; when you go to deposit your checks at the bank, you know, the ones that take 2-3 business days before the funds become available. Don't deposit the check! Cash it first. Then deposit the cash into your account, cash deposits are usually available immediately!!