I am better than you

At something. Probably. Maybe. I assume.

While Steem started off as a blogging platform almost three years ago and still largely holds that title, it has been changing consistently over the last year or so and expanding into new applications that don't rely solely on one's ability to write. There is going to come a day I think where there is very little for me to do here perhaps as more and more people explore various aspects of the platform where I don't fit in.

I am looking forward to it.

I am hoping that in time Steem will increasingly become a place where those who choose are able to explore and find the areas of skill that they are both good at and enjoy to find or potentially, create their niche. Not only could they have access to an additional revenue stream that could help them out and support them in various ways as the world of labor changes, they can do it doing something that makes their lives better, increases their connection to themselves and others through talents and collaboration.

While the Steem model is far from perfect at the moment, a lot of the issues it faces aren't with the design itself but rather through the expectations of the users, users trained and programmed to live lives in scarcity and oppression, whilst directed by authority driving consumerism. People come into Steem with a mindset that isn't supportive of where Steem could be but over time, people start to learn of the possibility. It does take time though and it does take personal paradigm shifts.

People love a revolution, they like to watch matching on the streets, upturned cars, they might even like to take part in the demonstrations but, that is not how the world changes to a freedom model, although it might be a step toward. Usually, what those things do is force the authority into reformulation under the guise of concession to create new models that effectively get the same or better result than the last, and the game goes on. It is impossible to win that game thinking like they for, they are much better at it than we.

As I see it, small steps, micro shifts in understanding and a slow swell that creeps through populations to reveal small truths, revelations that develop understanding to the point that greater truths are revealed and those paradigm shifts break the model that was. Many of those who came onto Steem have gone through a process of adjustment and development that has shifted their perspective and made them see what they may have been blind to earlier.

It is a process and the cycle is far from complete but we are just starting to see the edges of possibility and how things could be at some point in the future. A place where people can use their talents to not only earn for their livelihood, but a place where they can use their talents to add value to the worlds of others, to collaborate and build something different from the authoritarian models currently installed.

I can be better than you, you can be better than me but what we could create together is better than both of us.

A long way to go still.

Taraz
[ a Steem original ]