
No, I don't want a boat.
I was invited by to take part in his #whatdoyouwant initiative.
His video is here:
I've been a compulsive content creator on the internet for almost three decades. Photography is something quite new to me as I've been at it for only a year and a half now. What I've been doing is taking part in conversations on various platforms. It's something I've felt compelled to do. It might be considered somewhat wasteful an activity in terms of time and energy sunk.
I immediately fell in love with Steem when I took up creating content on Steem. Even more on Hive as I feel Hive is the best parts of Steem migrated to another chain. Why? Because Steem and Hive are about the miracle of my content capturing a bit of value. The world is awash with great content. Every second, hundreds if not thousands of hours of video is posted to YouTube and elsewhere. Tons of photography, some of it amazing, is posted to a plethora of platforms that goes completely unmonetized - by the authors. There is some actual value in all of it but it ends up entirely in the pockets of the middlemen. The value captured by every single type of activity on this platform is the stuff of legends, even at the lowest prices of STEEM/HIVE. Everyone, content creators and witnesses alike, are making out like gangbusters relative to the value they have so far contributed. Where does the value come from? Exchanges where altcoin speculators who treat HIVE (and STEEM) as derivatives of Bitcoin. Only about 155 million HIVE is powered up. That's the vesting fund. About 200 million HIVE are on exchanges subject to speculative trading. The mechanism is pure genius. Anyone lucky enough to have found this place by now can consider themselves as having stumbled upon a motherload of early adopter advantage.
I think it's entirely realistic to develop content creation on Hive into a source of side income capable of adding a measure of financial security to my life. I do not dream of lambos or mansions or anything like that. I'm not interested in any such things. The ability to go anywhere in the world, explore that place, do what I love (photography) and post that stuff/about it to Hive while earning something blows my mind. Neither does Hive give anyone the ability to interfere with me if I want to say something. To downvote and demonetize, yes, but I will always be able to speak my mind. It's incredibly frustrating and annoying to be censored, which has happened to me on a few occasions on mainstream platforms.
As per ' suggestion, I'll tag three other people who I'd like to share their ideas:
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