What Would You Do?
People often talk about what they would have done if things were different, or if they hade been given the opportunity and things like that. People talk about change and how things should be or could've been. Personal opinions, behaviour, goals and lifestyles varies, just as people's stake. However, if you had 100,000 Steem Power, what would you do?
In case a user close to or at 100K+ SP happens to read this, feel free to tell me what you are doing, and/or what you would've done if you had 500K or 1 million Steem Power instead.
I am not looking for any type of fantasy stories or things you believe I (or someone wealthy) would like to hear. I want to hear genuine ideas and thoughts. Things you honestly believe that you would do if you had 100,000 Steem Power.
- What would you do?
I love to daydream and I often think about things that never or probably never will happen, 100K Steem Power is one of those things. I'm not saying that it's impossible, because it's not. But I don't think that I will ever reach that amount. And honestly, 100K isn't that exaggerated and it would make a huge difference.
The first thing I would do, or the first thing I think I would do, is to stop voting on my own content. I am not against self-votes in general, even though I wouldn't appreciate the biggest whales to vote for themselves multiple times per day. I find that sort of behaviour greedy and selfish, but I vote on my own content now, and I will probably do it in the future as well. You see, I vote for my own content because it becomes sort of a guarantee for myself to earn something. It's different for wealthier accounts.
They get tons of exposure due to the size of their wallets, so I would not vote on my own content if I had 100K Steem Power. Anything I wrote or did would attract tons of people and I would receive hundreds of upvotes from others, so it wouldn't be necessary to self-vote.
If I stopped to self-vote, I would also have "extra" votes to reward other users with. I can totally see how this might sound like some sort of hypocrisy or whatever, as I self-vote today. The only answer I have is that I need a guarantee to earn something when I share content. If I had 100,000 Steem Power, the actual size of my account would be the only guarantee I needed. I would be rewarded more than I am today and the only difference is the actual size of my account. People often support and interact with wealthier accounts automatically because its an attempt to taste the crumbs they might spread on their audience.
Anyhow, the increased support I would get, based on what I wrote above, would also be the reason for me to stop self-voting.
This leads to the second thing I would do, or the second thing I think I would do, if I had 100,000 Steem Power. I would most likely curate differently. First of all, I would put all my focus on users close to 500 SP. I would probably not upvote any content from any other users, except for the people I have on my autolist and/or users I have frequently upvoted for a long period of time.
However, this would most likely be time limited, in the sense that I would focus on users close to 500 SP for 2 weeks and "ignore" them for the next 2 weeks after that to focus on whoever I wanted to support.
I can see why this might be a bad approach, and I can totally understand that some people, especially those who would automatically be ignored, would dislike that sort of discrimination. However, I would have to "find my own way", and as I currently believe that a strong middle class is a must have for STEEM to ever flourish, I would prioritize users close to 500 Steem Power before anything else.
I would probably change the Minnow-ASAP project a bit, and take on 10 or perhaps 20 users in total and push them into Minnowhood. Once they had reached that goal, I would take on new users again.
Even though we have projects and initiatives out there who already focus on minnow-making, I would definitely focus on building a middle class. My entire stake would be going straight towards "soon-to-be-minnow" users. And I would get a new title on STEEM. - Mmm... Minnow-Making Machine.
The third thing I would do, is to donate more to charity and to those in need. I'm not talking about giving away money to any of the beggars I get DMs from on Discord. But real charity projects. Donate to help kids get new stuff for School etc. Help someone to get food for the week or pay a bill. Things like that. I would basically just try to do more than what I have done.
So... My question is: