Yes, there is an amazing paradigm shift happening.

Looking at how Steem is set up to empower people to earn a living from content creation seems to me like the tip of the iceberg. The huge shift is happening right now. Curious how long do you all think this transition will occur. 5 years? 10 years? 20 years? Think about how fast everything changed only since 2008 until now.

And this means as the power of non-centralized currency evolves, so too will collective consciousness ascend to a point where there is very little power in centralized governments. This is because the same "conspiracy theories" that woke people up, (and reject mainstream candidates like HRC and Jeb Bush) will now have reached even more people. Hence, there is no putting the genie back in the bottle. Legacy media is failing. And its the only way the legacy politics stays in power. (Imagine a Senate and Congress filled mostly with maverick independents aware of crypto and the corruption of central banking).

So it seems as these cryptocurrency mechanisms grow we will see an economic shift that actually free's humans to do what they love to do, (whatever that might be).

I also have a weird theory that any alien monitoring of the planet would include how we handle our economy. And similar to Michio Kaku who used the Kardishev Scale to explain that the internet was a Type 1 phone system, I think that Steem is a Type 1 economy on that scale.

Makes sense if you think about how would a modern civilization with robots and A.I. function in terms of providing for people. Clearly the advanced civilization we see in Star Trek has eliminated money. But, from time to time we hear about "credits". So it seems there is an electronic currency that will allow us to engage with and perhaps even trade with alien species. But regardless of my ET speculation, a cryptocurrency based world economy will provide abundance for all.

Now, combine that with the eventual release of free energy systems. And, you have the makings for true freedom and abundance for all.