I loved the list of things steemit is for people.

I have realized that everyone interprets what steem or steemit it from their own level (Should i say perception of reality)

And to me all those purposes are valid it is just a matter of steering in the right direction.

A token, is a thing and it has the value we want to assign to it.
The same this platform can and will be anything that we as users, shareholders, investors, authors want it to be.

I think the key is in the slogan: Come for the rewards, stay for the content.

If we analyze it coldly, it is an appeal to human greed to join in, and the second part implies that once inside you will realize there is more than money.

I particularly have found a place where people that shares my points of view was hiding (or congregating) and i believe that more than all the purposes and definitions, the greater strength and purpose of steem is to provide a platform to build a human network where the word HUMAN is capitalized.

Once you realize that in general the more you give, the more you receive and you manage to set aside part of the unconscious selfishness that most of us show when seeing things from our perception of reality. In that moment the user becomes a steemian and anything is possible.

It only requires our investment and participation because it is a liquid democracy also, and everyone has a role or purpose.