The most important thing ever: #UseSTEEM or we all loose!

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Is it just me or people seem to not get the most important thing ever?

You should USE your STEEM!

There should be thousands of posts about creating quality content, strategy for becoming a whale, how to earn reputation and the like. Yet it seems to me that nobody talks about creating new ways to use STEEM... WTH!!!

Look at steemit as a whole new country, now we are talking about an economy of scale, big words!

Let's analyze two simple facts together then you tell me if using STEEM is the most important thing ever or not:

Fact #1: New STEEM is created at 100% ratio!

Hive account@fiveboringgames did a concrete analysis based on steemstats and the STEEM whitepaper in this article: STEEM creation seems to have increased significantly over 100% a year.

This is simple, more STEEM is being created, which is cool but more things must happen along with coinage.

Fact #2: Power Down is discouraged! But people needs to pay the bills!

My own article 104 weeks to cashout my hard earned Steem Dollar... I want it all and I want it now! got comments about why to hold. Yet we have the Hive account@curie project talking about new authors that need to monetize so they can dedicate more time to create more and better content: "Some of our members do this for free and others receive some small payment, since they are humans and have bills to pay" (from: Announcing Project Curie: Bringing Rewards and Recognition to Steemit’s Undiscovered and Emerging Authors). That of course requires them the cash out in order to pay for food, electricity, Internet and bed... sooner or later, cash out needs to happen!

What happens when we put Fact #1 and Fact #2 together? In other words, what is the consequence of having more STEEM created along with more people needing to exchange their STEEM for Bitcoin:

INFLATION

"In economics, inflation is a sustained increase in the general price level of goods and services in an economy over a period of time.[1] When the price level rises, each unit of currency buys fewer goods and services. Consequently, inflation reflects a reduction in the purchasing power per unit of money – a loss of real value in the medium of exchange and unit of account within the economy." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation

Then we get people looking for ways to stabilize the price of STEEM... Come on! Really? we can't and actually we shouldn't control the price of STEEM, in such case relay on fiat since it already has "experts" warming their chairs paid with your taxes... (stop blaming here).

What we can do is to influence the price of STEEM, which is a good and healthy practice.

How can we influence STEEM price for the good of everyone?

Possible answers:

Ask whales to hold and exchange "carefully"... WRONG! They should cover themselves first
Hold STEEM, SD and SP... WRONG! Check Fact #2 above again
Look for investors to buy STEEM... WRONG! Investors know their business pretty well, they aren't charities
Look for charities/non-profits/government agencies/etc. to invest on STEEM for any reason... WRONG! Steemit is a for-profit economy and there is people doing big money already
Change the SD:SP ratio and STEEM coinage algorithms... WRONG! changing the rules all the time only creates troubles, again we should not control the economy
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In short we learned that "Power Down is evil", cool! Now learn that exchanging STEEM is most of the time evil too.

Please everyone listen, if you want the good of STEEM and steemit, please listen:

You should USE your STEEM!

I beg you please USE your STEEM !!

How can people #UseSTEEM?

First of all please help me bump #UseSTEEM up as a trending topic, because that is how we'll get steemit to the next level and do good for everyone, along with saving the day, the week and maybe the year of those authors who love what they are doing. They put their hopes on this wonderful country called steemit, don't ignore them!

OK OK OK !!! Time to answer the million dollars question!

The best way of fostering #UseSTEEM is focusing on it. Let's focus our creative minds on creating new ways for using STEEM and to improve & extend the existing ones. Just have it clear that exchanging STEEM for Bitcoin is not what we are looking for.

This is what we should be doing: