Here are a few thoughts on why Steemit will transfer the way people interact with each other and create a new age of shared (hu)manpower that builds without borders or financial hurdles.
Steemit Brings People Together
Well, you could say the same is true for Facebook and all these others things distracting us from being productive. They all connect us. But Steemit does that by paying all of us for doing so. That means people like me who are barely able to provide for their families are all of a sudden in situation to hire a qualified specialist to do some amazing work for a project that will then open up new opportunities. Why? Because we all get payed for this process by sharing it on Steemit. Even better if it is something beneficial for the Steemit community.
That basically means whatever you are doing, your costs of doing that are at least lowered by Steemit if not even fully covered. That even includes the cost of your precious time. Of course that doesn't work right away. You have to build up your account first. But after three months I have reached a point where I can pay people to do awesome things that will be good for them and for me. And for everybody else as well because they add value to the platform. Win win win.
Steemit activates the Power of the Hive Mind
The way how things develop on Steemit is absolutely marvelous. And I am not referring to the platform itself which is just build by a few people. I am talking about the thousands of projects happening all at the same time allowing people to use their creative power to build and contribute to not just the community on Steemit but to society in general.
Here people produce with more motivation than on any other platform before. Every step of the work can be documented and put into a post that will refinance the work while it puts people's service on the market at the same time. One could say that Steemit is big show-off of skills and talent. It is still difficult to do but when the platform improves distribution of posts will hopefully improve as well. And then things will explode.
What is already happening on every corner of Steemit will create a dynamic nobody can follow anymore. Not even @Ned & co. will be able to overview this expanding blob of projects that all will create a thousand new blobs of projects. Steemit is making a difference by allowing people to live middle-class lives in regions where that is otherwise a rather tough endeavour. In the end it is very similar to basic income - just better!
Why Steemit is a bit like Basic Income
The idea of a basic income is circulating for quite a while now. I heard about it first in ~2006 and learnd more about when the Pirate Party in Berlin put it on their program. It means that all citizens of a country will be payed by the State a monthly basic income that can bes pend in any way they like. It is meant to lower or even cover the basic costs of living like rent and food.
Steemit is similar because it pays you for whatever you do as long as it is of interest to others. From the hive mind perspective this is ideal because now everyone has to contribute to get their share. This counters the often used arguement against basic income which is that people would stop working and just become leeches for society. I don't think that would actually happen a lot but this is not the point of my post.
Here you have to deliver something of value to get your value back. And because there are so many of us it becomes a giant machinery of productive work. I think when Steemit continues to grow like now it will become the number one job generator in the world. And we don't even have to wait for big money to allow us to do so. This already works with the little money we have left ourselves. Together we have plenty of hive money.
Final Thoughts
It is difficult to say how this will all turn out. But I think most people who have been on Steemit for a while would agree with me in saying that the possibilities of Steemit are far far beyond just posting. So despite all flaws I see on the Steemit platform I think that it is an onslaughting hive of creative people that will take the world by storm. It is us that will change the world.
I conclude with a video about the power of the hive mind:
