Steemit is a way of not being the puppet for massive social sites, like Facebook, that earns billions giving nothing back to its users that make all the profits possible in the first place. It's like being abused just for the fact that we are human and crave social interaction. Of course it's not direct abusement and people - at least seemingly - have the "choice" to use it or not. But was there really a choice before Steemit to use a social media that also gives something back to its users. At least I haven't heard of one.

On a deeper level for me it represents freedom and it's one way of potentially escaping the rat race we're guided and most of us are drift into.

Now, I don't despise people working on their jobs that they enjoy doing but personally I wan't to live a life in the future where my well being is NOT tied with having a job.