RE: Make 250 Minnows Insights and Observations - STEEM has a big problem

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RE: Make 250 Minnows Insights and Observations - STEEM has a big problem

roleerob in #steem • 6 years ago

Thank you @fitinfun ...

"Finally - I have three blogs here and have never once powered up. Instead I power down and live off this money since Dec 2017. Even with that - my sp is growing."

... for the investment of your time to give your fellow Steemians the benefit of your perspective. There are a lot of questions I see "in here" about why people don't "follow the script" and power up all they can. Including in this post.

You have provided everyone with one answer. Seems to me, in a "free market," this is as it should be, i.e. everyone is going to do what they deem to be in their best interest ... Perhaps, as they learn more, they will change their approach. Then again, even then, they may not ...

For myself and, I suspect, many others, they view their activity on the Steem blockchain as a long term investment, since they do not need the "active income" right now. But I know some for which that is simply not the case. Many of our fellow Steemians, in Venezuela, for example, need the "active income" now!

Thanks again for writing!

6 years ago in #steem by roleerob

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fitinfun 6 years ago

Exactly! And I know people using this money all over the third world for housing, medical, food etc. I am not some freak, but one of many. Just because we use the money now does not mean we are leaving.

My rent is $85 usd per month. My dinner I'm feasting on this moment is less than 50 cents of ingredients and I am loving it.

The world is not only made up of investors with long-term goals, big houses, and fancy cars. I am playing the long game at steem even if I am not doing it the way some people think I should. I post this message of what I am doing here all the time, and I am glad you saw it, @roleerob. We need our babies to thrive and the 95% kill rate needs to improve. At least I give people hope.

Most of the time, little guys cannot even get follows from big guys, much less votes or delegations or anything else. I beg for follows on my post footers since I post on busy. I get 20 people a week following with under 50 sp and maybe a few a month over 500.

If anyone does not need the money now, find some minnows and invest 1-3% of it in them somehow. If they do not work out, move on to the next. It's not like they are not here trying in droves. If we get to 10K minnows - and we will, let the next goal be 25K.

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roleerob 6 years ago

Very good @fitinfun ...

"The world is not only made up of investors with long-term goals, ~~big houses~~, and ~~fancy cars~~. I am playing the long game at steem even if I am not doing it the way some people think I should."

... I appreciate the additional input and perspective. I've "tweaked" what you have to say a bit, since many of us are far from wealthy (although well aware "wealthy" means different things to different people ...). At least in the way you have described. For example, I am investing for the long-term in hopes of providing a means of supporting my wife and I in our old age ...

"If anyone does not need the money now, find some minnows and invest 1-3% of it in them somehow. If they do not work out, move on to the next. It's not like they are not here trying in droves. "

The challenge here, at least for me, is the time commitment. But ... That said, I will commit to taking a closer look at how I might be able to do better ...

Thanks again for your contribution with your "real world" view of the Steem blockchain.

Have a good day! 👍

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roleerob 6 years ago (edited)

P.S. If you'd care to provide me your Discord name @fitinfun, I would like to ask some questions "off line," but I see there is more than one "Fitinfun" in there ...

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