Great post! Ironically, the same technology that birthed Steemit is going to put a lot of the upper class out of work. Blockchain-based fintech will decimate the financial sector. Honestly, if you could get paid in SD, pay your bills with SD and save for retirement with SP would you even bother using a bank? Me either. Remittances? Payroll? You can send SD around the world in a few seconds. Bye bye banksters...

How about smart contracts? With smart contracts on a blockchain 80 or 90% of lawyers are out of a job. Moving title on a real estate transaction is trivial and can be done on smartphone. At the coffee shop.

And what about insurance? Dan has written some great material on mutual aid societies. Fat cat insurance companies can be replaced by lean, benign aid societies using blockchains.

Finally, governance. Look around you! Steemit is already becoming an efficient, well-behaved society regulating itself through non-aggression. Bad actors are being dealt with swiftly and effectively. Reputations are being built and stateless identities formed. No big gov necessary.

Automation of the industrial processes is definitely pinching the traditional blue-collar occupations. But I think the white collar occupations are partying on the Titanic right now, and there's an iceberg dead ahead.