RE: The Party Is Just Getting Started - Welcome To Steemit Everyone!
I love this stuff. You are always leading the charge to make this place a better place. Thanks for all you do. It is strange how you can find a family in a bunch of complete strangers on a blockchain dealing with imaginary money but fixing real world problems. When you have hit rock bottom there is always someone here to say I have been there and give you some sort of hand up. I just spoke to a man in a 3rd world country and his article got @curie and it allowed him to move his son out of the country because that one vote was worth more than he made in an entire year as a professor. Just think about that. One damn vote fixed someones life. One damn vote was worth more than he made in an entire year as a PROFESSOR. My mind is continually blown when I log on here. We can't stop, No check that , We won't stop. Clear the tracks because a freight train is about to roll through and we ain't stopping.
I love your mentality @doomsdaychassis! (prefer DDC)... You and I would have a great time if we ever get together for dinner and a few drinks! I love this quote, it is so appropriate:
I love that... I love that you are right.. Its things like that where I get my drive and inspiration! I'm very happy to connect to you and I look forward to finding ways to make those stories more frequent and rewarding. Life is too short to sit back and be lazy, I know you get it and I'm excited for what we all can do in the future together!
One damn vote fixed someones life.
So much this! Its completely insane what this platform does for people. This is what made me want to be a part of Steemit! Lives are being changed for the better and that is beautiful!
check it out. I rebloged it but seemed ineffective
https://steemit.com/english/@hlezama/my-curie-story#@doomsdaychassis/re-hlezama-re-doomsdaychassis-re-hlezama-re-doomsdaychassis-re-hlezama-my-curie-story-20180514t013755230z
the crazy part is this guy is a professor. Much smarter then myself and a curie vote is more than he makes a year. That is not right. They are dealing with 13,000% inflation last night when i spoke to him. I spoke to another Venezualan this morning and he said they were at over 13,600% today. That is amazingly fucked up. Put it this way. If you had $100,000 in savings it would be worth pennies overnight at that rate. That is the sad sick face of socialism right there. He said they have to stand in bread lines for hours and are allowed to buy 2 items. That is disgusting. I feel so bad for this guy. He spent all his @curie money getting his son out of the country.
Yes they are, as are many other second and third world countries. The value of a US$1.00 stretches amazingly in these countries.
I too reblogged a post by a brand new Brazilian Steemian, @carlos8049888, who withdrew only $4.00 from his Steemit account. He works in the insurance industry and earns the equivalent of US$1.70 per MONTH.
With that US$4.00 from his Steemit earnings, he was able to buy groceries like chicken, meat and cheese that they had not been able to purchase for months.
M.O.N.T.H.S.
That's the power of what this Steemit platform can do.
Life changing.. For everyone. For all of us.
I couldn't have said it better. I think i sm going to sit down in the next couple days and write out a serious post about this. It really does piss me off.
Wow, those numbers are crazy! So sad, and yes, very disgusting. What these people have to go through to just eat some bread, its heart wrenching. And he was so selfless to spend all that on just getting his kid out of there. Thanks for sharing this information, I had missed what you had written about him. Definitely going to follow him, he sounds like one hell of a man, and anything I can do to help, I will do!