Now I see where the Big bang was coming from:)
In his thoughts on Rhetoric, Aristotle delineated for us (even if in a sexist manner) men's stages in life (youth, prime and old age).
Theoretically we all go though those stages as we age and will act accordingly.
Except for cases of arrested development or the sheer attachment to life's joys and excitements, we'll all age graciously and forget about childish behavior, thus keeping the generational gaps open wide enough for parents/teachers and children to never understand one another.
Thank goodness human behavior is more unpredicatable than that.
I enjoyed reading your comment and am trying my best to age graciously. I don't think I'm succeeding that well because I often side with my grandchildren and have lots of fun with them. At the same time I get on well with my daughter and her husband!On second thoughts maybe that IS what ageing graciously is all about!
I like your thought processes and the way you express yourself.....an accomplished writer.
Thanks a lot. I'm flattered.
It has taken me about 20 years to be praised for trying to do what actually became the source of bullying during my formative years.
I'm glad I lived long enough, and it's been all thanks to poor bear-market-striken Steemit. I'd really hate to see this platform flattened by crypto uncertainty.
It has so much promise.
This expectation that I will in time earn a little crypto cash from writing on the Steemit platform mystifies me completely. If you have the time and inclination Hlezama I would SO appreciate an explanation of how this money is generated and especially what (if anything) I should be doing with my wallet.
Thanks in anticipation!
Hi, @justjoy. The generation of the money per se is a mystery for me. I have not yet grasped the concept (of the crypto currency) and the fact that every day a new crypto currency is invented and some other disappears just blows my mind.
Unfortunately for me (beause i know that for most people around the world this was meant as a long-term investment out of which nobody was expecting to make a living in the short term), the price of Steem is at an all-time low (although some people think it can get even lower). This means that the income we were having is technically gone. I started here because of the money incentive. One year ago, a couple of SBDs was more than what we made in a month or two as university professors.
Now, under hyperinflation, we would need some 5 or more a day to make this profitable. It is very difficult to make that kind o money unless one has a reliable trail of big fish voting for everything we post.
In any case, the way we do it over here is that the half of the rewards (steem or SBDs) we get for post, comments, or curation (our votes for other posts), we usually cash via some trading sites (orinococambio, for instance). It is a very quick process, once our accounts have been activated in these sites and basically we transfer to them the Steems or SBDs (via steem connect) and they deposit in our Venezuelan accounts the equivalent in our currency.
I am not familiar with other trading sites for other countries.
For a long-term investment it takes some patience and strategy to earn some SP so that your vote is worth more and more people may be interested in your blog because of what your support may represent for them.
You have at the moment 48.5 Steem Power, for instance, but you have some 14 Steem in your wallet that you can use to power up, a simple procedure that turns the steem you've received from your posts into SP.
You also have some 25 SBDs in your wallet, every SBD is worth 3 times a Steem now, that means that buying SP is profitable now (if one does not need the money and can spare those SBDs). You might either cash those SBDs into your fiat money or buy SP and get to 137 aproximately (including the 14 Steem turned into SP).
The highest your SP the better. When you get more than 50 SP you can start delegating (lending) SP to curators so that they vote for your post and on your behalf they'll be voting on other posts. Some curators give us weekly reports and dividends for what our lent/delegated SP has produced in that period of time.
Most people who have thousands of SP selfvote their post and that way they guarantee some extra profits with their own existing SP, but it takes investment, alliances, luck or time to accumulate enough SP for a self vote to be worth it.
I hope this made some sense. It took me a while to grasp some of the basic terms here and I still don't quite undertsand much of what happens here with the value of Steem and the voting dynamics.
One thing is true: Quality is not a condition to get support. Only in exceptional cases will whales provide stable support based on the quality of a blog. Many crappy blogs get great payouts, which are the result of some friendly agreements, vote buying or some other trick we don't know.
Sorry I've only picked up your detailed reply now. I am blown away by the detail you have given me. I'm going to have to read and re read to get clarity but thank you a whole heap for your attention.
I decided at the outset that I would persevere for a year and that is still my goal. I am enjoying myself in the mean time.
It is a little disquieting that quality doesn't mean a great deal!
I think I need to buy SP and will look into it and hope I can manage!
I do appreciate your help Hlazama and wish you ALL THE BEST.