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RE: Steemit and the Fine Art of Selling AIR!
Absolutely perfect @denmarkguy! The apple analogy was bang on and very very clever :) I'm afraid we live in a world where many quit as soon as things are perfect, or as soon as there's a little work to be done; and you mentioned greed too ... you'll always find a greedy person near anything where money can be made, or where you can trick people into believing it!
Reminds me of bottled water. Remember when it first reared its ugly head? I laughed and thought, why on earth would people buy water when they can just turn on their taps (yes, I realize necessity for some), yet look at the bottles of water sold everyday across the globe.
Thank you so much for a perfect summation of the fine art of selling air ! :)
Hi @lynncoyle1, thanks for the kind words. Bottled water is another great example, and it's also a great example because people have been so thoroughly convinced that their $3 bottles of "designer" water is superior... even though it is hauled out of the ground a couple of miles from where the city water plugs into the same aquifer. I'm not knocking bottled water as a functional necessity in parts of the world where most water is unfiltered and disease ridden, though.
Another favorite is building; houses. You take a pile of wood, nails, wiring, stone and pipes and whatever it takes to build a house, and it costs a certain amount of money. And then you add a "fair profit" for a builder. And yet? When plunk them down in Salina, Kansas... the finished house is $120K, while if you plunk them down in Seattle, WA the finished house is $800K. The SAME house, made with the SAME materials. And it's NOT just "land value" that's to blame... there's about $500K of "pure air" in that Seattle house.
At some point, that system HAS to "break."
So true about the houses @denmarkguy! Coming from Vancouver, Canada, house prices are simply outrageous, akin to Manhattan. It's just ridiculous, so yes, "that system HAS to break!