I read a fantastic article from user @kryiacos earlier about the progressiveness of decentralisation and how those that are adopting early are essentially breaking free from the chains that have shackled us for so many years. Billions of us are still blinded by those chains and actually believe that they are there to benefit them. Some, even praise those chains that seek to confine them to their position forever. I broke free from those chains myself two years ago, and when I told my family and friends my plan for the future they laughed at me and said I was 'enjoying my little hobby' whilst the rest of us are working hard and making serious cash. My own friend, who isn't anymore, told me that I was a waster intent on throwing my life away.
Breaking shit down
Let's break it down. Those that work for an employer earn a portion of their worth. Their true earning power is massively undervalued. I heard, a few years ago, that the CEO of Walmart was making thereabout $16000 per second. Let me tell you, it's not the products themselves that make him that it's his staff. Those on $5 an hour or whatever wages are in America. It's not profitable to earn your true worth or employers will never ever earn a profit to keep them in fast cars and expensive hookers. Then there's the whole concept of debt, which I hate with all my might. Isn't it great that we can buy fast cars and big houses on a portion of our salaries? Yes, amazing. We can sign up and we'll make monthly instalments for the rest of our fucking lives. To pay off the debt you need to have a job that grossly underpays your true worth. We have become slaves that praise the chains that bind us. We have Stockholm syndrome and it's really not a laughable matter.
Along comes blockchain technology and yup, for me, and a lot of other people it's basically allowed me to go at it alone for several years and probably for the rest of my life now. I am finally free. I exist outside a system of entrapment and that makes me finally feel good. It's funny too, all my friends that sought to laugh at me are all now curious of what I've been up to. The once laughed at isn't too funny anymore. I sort of feel a bit like Galileo amongst my peers but I'm really hoping that I'm not burned at the stake!!
The discussion I REALLY want to have
However. Here IS the discussion that I'd like to have today. Most of us in here are fully aware of the system, why and how it ensnares us and those greedy old men at the top that love to see their bank notes grow. I fully think that they believe there is no place at the top for people like us. Our blood isn't like theirs. I think they radically believe that their successes were built upon and attributed to their own hard work, and not as mere victims of circumstances like all of us are. I doubt any person classed as elite would consider council estate Colin as one of their equals even if he was wealthier than them from a fortune he accidentally invested in Bitcoin when his mates got him drunk one day.
This leaves us; you, me, and everyone else on this platform and everywhere else in crypto with a dilemma. What happens when those that create these systems take note of this new avenue that people like you and I are profiteering from and freeing ourselves from the system, and our friends too, or at least the ones that are open to it? Will they roll over and say, "Drat, Bilderberg, mate. Games up. Oh, well. It was fun whilst it lasted."? I highly, highly doubt that and as much as I am really excited for the future I am equally as anxious for it. Like everything amazing at the start whenever it becomes too mainstream people will start to perk up and notice.
Propoganda machine
I can honestly see it now. The newspapers and mainstream media will start running huge headlines on how Bitcoin fuels trades between some country that we are at war with, neglecting to mention that we sell them arms anyway. They'll run commentaries on how Joe Bloggs lost his entire life savings from a bitcoin gamble and now he's living under a bridge, homeless and tormented by a gang of youths every day. Then whilst people are dropping their Bitcoins faster than Kim Kardashian drops her kegs for money, shitheads will swoop in and push the price to a fickle amount, suck it all up, and rise it back to an insane amount. Then it will all change. Suddenly we'll see stories of governments waging war over the tyrannical use of Bitcoin, we'll have messages subliminally entrenched in our minds that cryptocurrency is a safe and wondrous place to be in la la land; ready, primed and freshly gamed by those that seek to control us.
Cryptocurrency lending becoming mainstream? I think that's a possibility. When it hits mass of adoption on an immense scale I can see bricks and mortar crypto outlets offering us the world yet enslaving us in a new type of way. Oh, how we'll all cheer amazingly at how we escaped the chains of last time, that cryptocurrency has freed us from a lifetime of infuriating pain, suffering and enslavement from our masters, but dressed up as a wolf in sheep’s clothing we will have leaped from the cooking pot and into the fire.
Mark my words. Whatever happens. Hold onto your coins when panic ensues.
Just a theory, like any other.
A theory though. I'm well aware of that and cryptocurrency may well stay the way it has since its inception; a way of freeing people from central government and mass currency holders. Time will tell.
What I will say though is this. A platform like Steemit will change the face in which content is shared and marketed with. I fully expect that in a year or less mainstream social media will have to completely rethink their business models or face complete ruin. Since I started Steemit I've spent more time on here than anything else, and usually, I'm off chatting with my friends. This place though has me excitedly thinking up challenging concepts and sharing them with the community. It's damn exciting stuff. And although I give you warning we can't neglect the exciting new dawn that's quickly approaching us. For the moment, I can only see success and a bright future.
What's your opinion?
I would be more frightened of whats about to come! Check this out: https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@tomm/you-won-t-believe-this-insane-new-law-against-cash-and-bitcoin
I knew it. The fuckers have already started
Really interesting article. The idea of a business or platform distributing token's or coins incentivises it's users to play a part in ensuring the platform's success.
I think the stage we are at now is the formative stages of the future of blockchain technology. It's inevitably up to us to define the future of blockchain.
Very true!
Thanks for the sharing such nice and fruitful article...Upvoted
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