But if people who wish to be full time bloggers cannot make a living here they will go elsewhere. Using your example as the Steemian that was @allasyummyfood .
This is akin to closing the stable door after the horse as bolted except it isn't because there is nothing wrong with selling and using Steem, in fact my personal thoughts are that showing the world that Steem is an earnable and usable form of exchange for goods and services and is unlike any other crypto is the best way forward to encourage others to join the platform. Once they are here, hopefully they will understand that you need to invest to earn more and thus the ball starts rolling .
Hodling is great advice when you've thousands of Steem being used for curation and compounding but to many others not so fortunate, it's doing what it was designed to do and creating a small income in return for their content.
It's also odd how those who have had their pie are now telling everybody else not to sell and to buy more!
Spend a little , save a little is still the best advice and what Steem helps you do by default with the 50-50 split.
All that buying more and hodling advice simply means people don't need to post anything much to see great returns. Autovote curation takes care of that.
We need people posting because the content is our shop window . Hodling and buying more Steem alone and just hoping the price will rise is a terrible fallacy and will not lead to new members joining and an improvement in prices .
This has to be a token of utility .
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Everything you mention is a great argument for being a part time steemian. I'm not sure if you are agreeing with me or not, as all these points apply both to part time and full time steemians. The only difference is, full time steemians are sure to cash out for fiat, whereas the part time ones might find several other use cases other than the one.
Also, I had my share of the pie and after that I invested almost double of what I sold :)
This is my whole point, so I'm still not sure if you agree or not with the post. Exactly what you mention here is what a part time steemian would think whereas a full time steemian is most likely powering down regularly.
Content creation is just a tiny drop of water on the whole ocean that can be steem, the problem is, most people see it as a blogging platform where you earn crypto. It's not. Steem is so much more than that, the blogging part is just as you say, the first point of contact, but it's far from being the only one
I'm kind of 50/50 with you!! 2 years ago, you were a shining example. You were people the rest of us wanted to be.
All I'm saying in a roundabout way is that we are tied to a certain extent by the stupid Crypto markets and Steem is so so much more. It can be earned, it can be used and it's also really social.
You're right, its so much more than just blogging. We have so many Dapps, and its an investment game and tool, but we have to get the balance!
With FIAT, if you save everything, you'll be a rich miserable bugger. If you spend everything, you'll be poor and miserable and your flashy new phone will be a relic in 2 years.
We need moderation and sensible use to get people into the community. There is something here for everyone but just hodling for ever isn't the way.
Let's stick at I half agree with you. Common ground. We need people buying but we need people using too!
I can't write for shit! Sorry, hence me being reactive rather than proactive and certainly NOT being a content creator lol I post pics I take of dogs on motorcycles FFS!
We just need a cohesive marketing strategy off-chain and a great mobile experience, that's why we are not getting people here in numbers.. That's what we have always been lacking.
How about full-time Steemian, part-time income :-)
I get it. I don't see the point in defining whether or not two parties in a discussion are in agreement lol. I think the only agreement anyone should have here in regards to steem is that this place might be a diamond in the rough..
It's difficult to tell from up here in the peanut gallery. This raw form of incentivized whatever might just be a geode. An echo chamber full of agreeing voices, whilst warm and fuzzy, won't be polishing any hidden gems before the mines shut down.
20k steem sold from blogging is honestly incomprehensible for someone like me and I can't form an opinion on such a fantastical career.. All I can say for certain is I have never bought steem and I've yet to hear a sales pitch that would convince me to do such a thing with fiat money..
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Think back to the make-up tutorial lol.....ok..a little later in Dec2017 the price was rising daily and imagine 1 SBD worth $13 USD lol.......100 Steem you had 1300USD in hard cash....of course, people were making a living here...except for the greedy ones who were holding on and holding on until it all fell apart.