I had a conversation by SMS with a friend of mine about cryptocurrencies and the recent bull run in the crypto market. It is somewhat annoying to hear the tulip mania comparison time and a again. Now, I will readily admit that cryptocurrency valuations are extremely speculative at the moment. But the tulip bulb comparisons are rather stupid. Tulips are plants. Cryptocurrencies are software. Cryptocurrencies are constantly under development. If you want to express a negative view of the cryptocurrency market at this moment, a much much better analogy is the Internet stock bubble twenty years ago. The man had a career in IT before self-funded retirement a few years ago, so think he should understand the difference.
I've also told him about Steem and recommended that he create a Steem account on Steemit for himself and told him that I recently had a conversation like that with someone on Steem and got paid $5 just for having a conversation I would've had anyway. I told him I had enough Steem Power, of my own and delegated, that my likes were each worth 15 c. He quipped that he'd go to work if he needed money. On what grounds would anyone refuse free money? If someone offered me monetary rewards for scratching my ass with no strings attached (no pun intended), I'd take the money. And don't get me started on Facebook where people allow an extremely detailed digital fingerprint of their personalities to be created and analyzed by powerful analytics tools by Facebook and let Zuckerberg sell that information to advertisers for no compensation whatsoever other having the opportunity to use the platform. Steem is completely superior except for the fact that it doesn't have everybody and their dog on board - yet.