you are confusing cost with price. The cost of email was initially high, and now it is low. The price of email is also low. The cost of steeming, initially was high, because of low returns on investment, but now the cost of steeming is lower, while the price is higher.... basically, what you just said lacked clarity, and is contradictory. not sure why this is at the top of the comments list for this post.... oh... because you upvoted it.
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I agree I tend to be a little obscure (lack clarity) because I try to be brief - Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.
No I didn't confuse cost with price. To set up a mail server continues to have a certain cost, but nobody expects to pay to send an individual email.
Steem network maintenance is facilitated by witnesses. I have no idea what the mechanism is being employed to have these computers manage the data flow. While it will never cost zero (computers cost money) - in the long run STEEM will go to zero in price. Everything goes to zero. Napster used to have a marginal cost (hard drive space), had zero price but had a huge value - spelling the end of the way the music industry conducted business.
STEEM will always have a cost (as long as its active), would go to zero price (as technology evolves) but will have a huge value because it can disrupt how media companies will work. Just today I saw a presentation describing how Twitter and Youtube will end. Twitter (because people won't care) and Youtube because of the loss of Net Neutrality. Would you subscribe to Youtube for $50 per month when alternatives will be free?
I'll suggest that YouTube will go to 0 long before Steem will. Btw, your long answer didn't make any more sense than the short one. The reason Steem can distrupt social media is because the token has value and people are getting paid to create content. I guess I'll stop trying to reason with you, because you'll likely just reword what you already said
I agree here is a video citing 10 companies which are in crisis and could disappear soon (including YouTube)
Each of these were social networking sites. They were very large, very profitable.
Either they wiped out earlier forms or they were wiped out by Facebook.
The STEEM community is 500,000. Facebook has 2.07 billion monthly active users. I expect STEEM will add Facebook to the upper list. Eventually something will supplant STEEM.