If you haven't noticed, a few thousand more jobs just got replaced by robots.

At the rate we're going, Amazon will just be using robots to ship everyone their necessities, and we'll be ordering this stuff from our couches on our phone. Unlike most humans, I welcome this shift. I fucking hate boring jobs, and if a robot can do it, then I am more free to help society evolve into a more colorful and interesting version of its current dreadful state.

Steemit, and Planet Steem are not what you think they are.

They are much more than a "blogging platform". They are much more than Social Media 3.0. What people don't realize is that smaller communities, err....tribes are forming within Planet Steem. These sub societies are creating social tribes that provide a sort of insurance for income. In its essence, it's social insurance, based on people voluntarily associating with like minds. The more value you create, the more you are valued by those who are similar to you. This is how tribes formed before the corporations took over the fabric of society. Is it perfect? Hardly. But those who were here from early days can attest that it is better than it was. It will continue to evolve.....for better or worse, that's up to us, and our energy.

I am not saying that corporations are all bad, but I, along with other prominent people, think that the current design of corporations is very bad indeed.

People are confused by the term 'decentralization'. They think that means everyone will suddenly be equal and we won't have fights anymore. We will have more fights, because central authorities, like CEOs and pyramid-style social structures keep fights at a minimum through suppression (and yes, Steemit shares these characteristics too). What we are moving towards are millions of sub communities, and voluntary collectives, the kind which existed before the corporations took over. Corps will still exist, but they will cease to dominate all aspects of our lives.

So, what will this look like? Just look at what is going on in Steemit for your answer. Have you noticed that people who are more socially involved do better than those who are socially isolated? (I'm not talking about artists and programmers here, who generally work alone and who do well after releasing a project.) Programmers do better on here because Steem's early adopters were mostly those involved in the tech side of crypto. Artists were largely absent from this group. But the strange this is, that artists and programmers are very simlar because they work independently. Their tools are the only things that are different.

Back to my point.

Everyone has superpowers.

If you don't know what your superpower is, I challenge you to dwell upon this until you do. The future waits for you to figure this out.

If you don't know what your superpower(s) is, you're going to lose out to someone who does know. Passion wins the game. They don't teach you this in school, but I know it's true. I've lived this. You might not succeed today, while that asshole does, but if you quietly work, with determination, and passion, and the thing you're working on fits into your superpower wheelhouse, you will win eventually. Or even if you fail, you will be much wiser than when you started.

I failed at 4 businesses, right in a row. I tried so many fucking jobs, it's unreal. The problem always came down to this: I see myself as a person like Willy Wonka, not an Oompah Loompah. I want to create that lickable wallpaper, even if it's just in a story. I don't want to be the salesperson, the factory worker boxing up the lickable wallpaper. My main superpower is my imagination, which actually knows no bounds. I never allowed anyone (for very long) to tame my mind. And another thing I share with Wonka is my severe distaste for cheaters.

Modern society would make you think otherwise, because it is not in the corporations best interest that you discover your superpowers. They gain nothing from you becoming free. Being free means you get to choose wisely who and what you invest your time in. Most of the current systems operate with a slave system in place. You're in debt, so you need a job. You can't be picky about who you work for because your family would starve. You take the first job offered to you. You are a slave.

I am very familiar with being a slave. I was one once. I no longer am slave in most respects, but I am not free either. I am a slave to information. This is my final addiction.

But now I have the freedom to decide who and what I want to do. I made it out of the Matrix. It was not easy, as I spent over a decade trying to figure it out and mostly failing. The thing that sets me apart from others who are in it, is my determination. I was determined to figure out how to be free from wage slavery. That was my bitch.

The fear of going back to wage slavery is why I generally work over 10 hours per day, every day. I don't take days off even though I should. There is just too much I want to do. There are too many ideas I have that are whispering to me at night. There is still so much work to be done to improve the way the world operates.

So, I ask you now: do you want to be free? How bad do you want it?

If you don't want it, you really won't achieve much in your life. That's just reality. The world won't respond to half-assed attempts. You really have to want something before it becomes real. And it won't happen over night. I worked my ass off for a decade trying to fucking figure it out. And whatever monetary gains I've made could all be taken away at any moment. But an idea cannot be snuffed out, neither can a collective movement that matters. My reputation, though, cannot be destroyed by anyone other than myself.

I am not saying you should quit your job. You should not! What I am saying here is that you should figure out what your superpower is, and then either create a community, or help someone create something you believe in, which uses your skills.

-Stellabelle
btw, I am looking for about 5 special people from all over the globe to help out with a very special project in 2018. Make yourself be known to me.