Steem has given humanity a platform to better understand ourselves, our human nature, our capacity for charity and willingness to help our fellow man.
Steem is Charity with a Catch
What if I told you everyday I would give you $100 to spend.
However, if you didn't spend it at the end of the day you would have to give back.
Everyday you have the opportunity to spend another $100.
You can do 3 things with this money:
- Spend this money on yourself
- Spend this money on someone else
- Do nothing at all.
So, the question is - "How will you spend your $100?"
Equally interesting is - How will humanity at large choose to spend this money?
Where we are today
As a member of the steem community you are given an allotted number of votes that have value every day. Those with more vested steempower have higher valued votes. If you don't use it, you lose it (in the sense that votes only regenerate to a max of 100%).
Charity & Inequality
This is a great social experiment in what I call "Charity", but really would be better defined as our ability to share something of value (and limited supply) with another person based on our value of their creative work. It's been fascinating to watch this platform develop and our human nature mold it into what it is today.
There are some interesting "problems" which are starting to crop up. It's true there are many Whales which have the ability to change someone's life with a single upvote however choose not to vote.
There are also many minnows struggling to get noticed plowing everything they have and all their votes back into the community but not getting the recognition they deserve.
Fortunately, these concerns are being noticed and many new minnow support projects have been started such as minnow booster, Boost and Random Whale as well as many new new community projects are underway to put support systems in place that help to create more value and value based equality within the community.
It's wonderful to see humanity support humanity as we continue to build steem and make it a more equatable community.
It's a Revolution
We truly have a mechanism to make a change to humanity for the better. Blockchain, cryptocurrency and related tech are all new paradigms to conventional thought and wonderful advancements. However, IMHO I don't believe this compares to the ability that Steem has to dramatically impact the world at large on a wholly beneficial way.
It is a revolutionary concept that we "the people" now have the ability to vote for those things that are important in our lives. No longer do we have to put our faith in governments and non-profits to use our money in the best way - We can now chose ourselves.
It also offers the individual the ability to help people out of financial hardship and the opportunity for financial freedom. All achieved by creating value. No dropping bombs, no devalued fiat currencies. Steem is about assigning monetary value for "creative value".
World's Largest Social Experiment
As the world's largest social experiment in charity, I'd just like to remind everyone (that goes for you Whales too) we have an opportunity here to make a huge change.
Let's make this the best it can be, one upvote at a time.
