I am a big believer in steembasicincome. This is the brainchild of 
From his original idea where he was working on a spreadsheet (!) to today when he has teams of people and systems in place, this program has been a mainstay and beacon of hope for me on steem. I am proud to be one of the first users, and only want to participate more.
Here is what I will talk about today:
- What is sbi?
- How to get shares.
- How many shares I have now.
- How can I get a bigger vote?
- Plans for the future.
What is sbi?
SBI is the steem version of universal basic income. This is a concept with the idea that everyone deserves an income for being a citizen of a place.
Here, we are citizens of steem. If you have sbi shares and blog here, you will get votes from sbi. This concept is tempered in reality with an exclusion for bad content and a restriction that you get votes to the level of shares that you have.
The more shares you have, the higher the vote you get.
Aside from this basic information, there is a lot more detail you can find on the blog at @steembasicincome. I do not worry about it too much and just attempt to get more shares!
How I get shares.
- I buy them
Send 1 steem per share and mention another steem blogger in the memo. Both of you get one share. Done! - I win them
So many bloggers offer sbi shares in contests that I cannot begin to list them here. I look on contest posts that sbi has a couple of times a week and the dailypost as well. Further, I browse in steemnow for new posts and find them often there.
There are so many contests for sbi shares that I never enter them all, but I try my best.
How many shares I have now.
I have two blogs and also help my son 
These are the shares we have now based on my sbi status requests. You can do these requests on a comment anywhere on steem, and in seconds you get the reply.
We all post 2-4 times a day and this makes the vote value fluctuate.
- more posts; smaller vote
- less posts; bigger vote
It all comes out properly in the end. SBI has big robots (or something) figuring all this out.
How can I get a bigger vote?
You can vote for sbi posts
I do this vote daily with all three blogs with theauto-voter so I do not have to think about it.
You can delegate to sbi
I am not doing this, but I plan to when I have more sp.
Plans for the future
- Enter more contests
I fall off the truck at times and forget to enter contests. Since I have such good results with winning contest, this is a bad plan! - Buy more shares
I was on a plan of buying a couple of shares a week and got off of that. But now I am back on. 2 shares per week is 100 per year. This will not make a big dent in my life now, and will pay of well in the future. - Delegate to sbi
This will happen when I have 1000 of my own sp on any of the blogs. This is a few months off in time for fitinfun, and longer for the other two blogs.
In Conclusion
Thats it! If you have any ideas for me about improving with sbi, please tell me what you know.
If you have questions based on this post, ask them in the comments. I want to here from you.
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Minnow tips!
Here is my latest minnow tips post if you struggle here at steem.
These tips can help you even if you are not new.
Monday Minnow Tips for Everyone from @fitinfun
Contents of the Above Post
What should I do EACH DAY on STEEM with low power?
What to do with your STEEM
Are you shooting blanks with your votes?
Should you use an autovoter?
Join qurator
Do not post to nowhere
Why bother to comment?
How and Why to use kryptonia
How to get Upvotes
For Twitter Users
How and Why to lease delegated sp
Curation Trails
Using Discord
And here is an update on 
@fitinfunfood Update Post
Please Help Me Keep Helping at STEEM
Please follow my blogs:
We all post on Busy most days, where their upvote for us is based on the collective SP of our followers. We all follow back, because we love you. This is the power of STEEM.
Put my blogs on your curation trail
If you delegate sp - you can go to 
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I lost "Half My Size" eight years ago by using natural methods. I started on December 5th and did not give up. You can do it too!
This is Sharon 
Please follow along or contact me directly if you would like some individual help with weight loss and health. Anyone can do this if I did.