RE: Looking back from tomorrow: Flatter earnings, more earners
Those that are extracting now thinking their easy life will always be on an autovoted tap, are going to be in for a rough ride.
It's completely crazy how I have more SP than a lot of the people that were here from early on... They had a shot at earning Steem easily... I didn't and had to buy most of my SP because I showed up in summer 2017 and started from the ground up.
It seems as though they pissed away a big opportunity and are trying to play catch up - it's hard for them because they didn't feel the need to sharpen their content skills, they just do lame contests and weak memes or low-level writing -- and now that the easy money is gone, some are panicking and using bots...
I'm powering down a bit, but not to withdraw and spend, then repeat... I just want liquid steem to sell off at the next high so I can buy back in later... so even my powering down is very future-oriented.
Thanks for the thoughtful posts, I typically breeze through them without commenting much because I'm a hyper spaz!
One trick ponies and not very talented at that. Early in had massive advantages that many squandered. I did too from lack of knowledge.
I am using SBDs for this as well as to pay for my delegation. I have some steem on exchanges too to do the same. The goal is to add a little more since earning is quite hard (relative to experience/effort) here with so few manual curators.
This should make for more interesting comments ;)