Exactly two years on this platform today. EDIT: Actually, in a few more days. Thought it was June 27. Apparently July 1st. Oh well. This is still the post for it.
Laughably, the payouts for my posts have almost fully returned to their beginning levels.
Well, that's the market, so fuck it. Adapt or die.
Why am I still here?
I'm still here for the reason I've always been here: the idea.
Ideas create reality. Humans create money. We are the evaluators. We are the creators.
Money (systems of trading value for value) paves the way for further innovation of ideas.
This inspires new sparks. New creations.
YOU CAN'T JUST MAKE MONEY FROM THIN AIR! WHY SHOULD YOU GET PAID FOR A BLOG!?!?
- Yes, you can. We do. All money is created that way.
- People are paid for ideas all the time, everywhere.
A meme created for me by a friend here.
I've made a lot of friends here. Real friends that I actually trust. Some I have actually met in the flesh.
I've dug myself out here. Learned a lot about others and myself. The community is real. And, to me, still remains one of a much higher calibre and quality than those of other social media sites. There's a lot of bullshit on Steemit as well, don't get me wrong. But the real individuals here, put out some genuine stuff. Of a character and quality that smacks of individuality. And reality.
Thumbnail image for my first Steemit post.
Right after my first Steemit post 2 years ago, I quit my job.
Now I am a full-time unschooling advocate and Voluntaryist blogger. The way things are going, I don't know, though. I may have to adapt again, and go back to another job which I will eventually quit again. Hah! I won't settle. Can't. Too many important ideas to be had.
Ideas are everything. And that is why I am here. Thanks for a fucking killer two years. As questionable as things here may seem at times (especially now) the cat is already out of the bag. The idea has escaped. As my buddy 
says, we're sitting on Internet 2.0.
Blockchain isn't going anywhere.
Why does that matter to me? Well, because the power is there. It's been revealed. And nobody can unsee that. What power? That that has always been present. The power of the individual spirit, and inherent to this, the capacity for peace, innovation, and ideas which can create and manifest realities we cannot even imagine at present.
~KafkA
Graham Smith is a Voluntaryist activist, creator, and peaceful parent residing in Niigata City, Japan. Graham runs the "Voluntary Japan" online initiative with a presence here on Steem, as well as DLive and Twitter. (Hit me up so I can stop talking about myself in the third person!)