More of the same slide

Just waking up (still in bed) to more market drops. Panicked yet? Nah, you only live once. People like to look at the price of Steem as reflective of the project but it is far from the case and one just has to look at the entire market scene to see it. Pumps and dumps all over the place.

I am looking forward to getting a job and a little additional income so that I can buy in a bit more than I have. 23 cents is looking great for Steem and I don't think it is finished yet but again, what do I know about trading, as I look long.

In some ways it is quite annoying considering the work put into earning Steem on the platform as many can just buy in but, will they? Some will but most likely as the past has shown, most will not. It can be 2 cents and it is still too expensive, but they might buy into some other pump and dump coin. It is all part of the fun.

As said before, I used to panic a little at these market dumps, my chest would tighten as my future life of financial independence slipped away. It doesn't affect me much now. The difference I guess is that one thing Steem has taught me about myself is that I have a work ethic that will see me through just about anything. Rain or shine, I have personal tools available that I can rely on to be there.

That, and it is enjoyable to be writing, to be creating something that is uniquely mine. My thoughts, my images, my development and my relationships formed with others. While people worry about their financial freedom, what about creative freedom?

I am not talking about freedom of speech, we all have that already. I am talking about the process of creation, using the tools and resources available to us to build something that is from us, that no one else but us could create.

One of the future problems is that the more we consume from the same sources, the more likely our ideas come into line. We are what we eat and we are increasingly eating the same slop from the same troughs. It ends up at a point where we only create what others create. It is happening already and we can see it in the polarization of opinion where groups echo themselves.

Staying narrow means that one is unlikely to see all of the other factors in play, which is why this focusing on price as an indicator of success is quite poor for a long-term view. Then, it also depends on what one wants. If finacial freedom is seen as freedom, maybe that makes sense to look at. I wonder, if there was a Weapon coin that people could buy into that financed wars, would they invest into it if it offered high profits?

Probably. Would you?

At the end of the day people work in self-interest and if their interest is only in paying their bills, it doesn't matter how they go about it. It is the same as doing it only for profit, isn't it?

It comes down to what we personally value and how we see the future as to the behaviour of the present, and those who think short don't consider the ramifications of their actions by default. Small steps into oppression and tyranny and as long as they get what they want out, it is fine.

We are all responsible for our experience and while we might lay blame in one direction, we ignore the role we played in another. The complexities of being human or the failure to discover the simplicity of it all?

As is often said, we create our world but what if we aren't creating anything of value or, we aren't creating at all? Creativity is a dying art as individual consumption of mass produced content drives action. We want free of the 0.1 percent controllers but keep buying what they sell - product, ideas and habits.

This is the reason the markets are the way they are, they are manipulated and supported to drive profits, not develop projects. People don't care about creativity and ideas, because whenever they get a few dollars to spare, they use it to support more of the same.

Taraz
[ a Steem original ]
_{(posted from phone)}