It's awesome to see a post you've made about a subject your passionate about making even just a couple of dollars or less.
When you're so used to never making any money at all from what you share online and doing it all out of the love in your heart, and then.. You start to see some money coming in.. Even if just in small amounts, but it's from doing something you love.. And would do for free anyways, so.. It's just like.. Such a cool feeling.
And I mean.. I'm not new to steemit, I've been here close to two years now. And I used to make more money than I do now, lol. Especially when I had a whale following me for a period there..
Recently I actually have lost money in a sense since starting the Information Finding Championship in order to make it work and promote it and help build it.. But.. I look at it more as an investment than a loss and.. It just hit me the other day again really hard.. Just how awesome this is.
Plus.. Especially for people in poorer places in the world! It's a major game changer for them. But.. Even if nothing else.. It's just really neat to see a post of mine about veganism, or conspiracies, or philosophy or whatever.. Making a couple dollars or less.
There's something really intriguing about being able to be compensated for sharing your thoughts with the world. Or art or just about anything you wanna share.
I know it intimidates some, and they don't want money involved.. And I respect that(You do have the option to decline payment on steemit if that's the case), some people even think that you'll be more pure if you don't involve your passion with money, which there might be some truth to, though to me.. I kinda see it as.. If I make more money, then I can help others even more!
However once again.. I think I just wanna stress and say that.. Pretty much everything I've been sharing, was the kinda stuff I was sharing before for free and not making any money from.. I think that's one thing that helped me do so well, is that.. I was doing this out of the love of it already, so.. The money factored in less for me than for a lot of people who come to steemit looking to make money.
So I mean.. Why not? Why not start making some money for something I was already doing for free if some people see a value in what I offer?
It's sorta like being tipped for doing a good job. Even if it's just a small amount. Someday maybe it'll be more significant! There are people on steemit making a LOT of money.. Though.. Even just a few dollars here and there, I think is a really fascinating step in the right direction for technology and society in my opinion!
And now with Facebook and Twitter both taking 20% hits to their value and reporting less growth.. I'm wondering.. How long till more and more people discover steemit and want to do what they were doing before, except also to make money for it and to not be censored by corrupt oligarchs?
And there are other platforms out there and in development, though.. I still think steemit is the best out there right now for the time being.
Who knows what will happen with Facebook in the future, or steemit... But I'd like to think this is the beginning of a shift towards corrupt in bed with government monopolies dying, and new less centralized and better options becoming more mainstream. :)
