As our Hive token continues its descent towards what seems like nothingness, I find myself getting less and less involved in the community circular discussions about our future, in search of going back to basics.
I am basically a blogger. And a writer.
The fact that I have periodically had the good fortune to earn a few dollars here and there as a result of posting my words on a wide variety of venues, going back all the way to 1998 is largely coincidental.
I was a blogger and writer before anybody ever came up with the idea that you should be paid for content, and if the future means that you're not getting paid for content that's fine too. I'm still a blogger and a writer. There was never really a contingency there.
I've read a number of the ongoing posts over the past weeks from witnesses, community members and bystanders alike... and I suspect we all just scratch the surface of the issues, which we perhaps forget extend far beyond the borders of Hive.
Sure, we have "problems" around here. Perhaps central to those problem is that we are supposedly paying people to do various things — be it develop the basics and infrastructure, and develop games or whatever — but the problem with that is that there is the implication that they're going to get paid for their work, with the further implication that if you pay somebody for their work they want access to the money so they can go out and buy anything from the pizzas needed to burn the midnight oil while coding to server space for whatever it is they're developing.
You can't have a system where you claim you'll compensate someone for their efforts, and then complain when they actually cash their paychecks... or call them "unpatriotic" for doing so. That's delusional!
But we've essentially developed the system of "money for nothing," in the sense that we hand out this money and it is not contingent on somebody having a business plan, a profit motive and the ability to generate revenue with whatever it is we're handing over the money for.
Historically, nobody seems to have considered whether or not anything that's developed is a revenue generating, or be able to actually bring a tangible influx of new users. It's like nobody has ever heard of doing a profit-and-loss analysis or a feasibility study. And no, saying "it's a GRANT" is not a defense. Do you have any idea how much data you have to provide, when writing a grant proposal? And how much you have to document your progress?
As I said in a rather lengthy comment I left on a recent post about Hive's "crisis" situation, people buy things they can use, not just great ideas.
So what does that have to do with the title of this post?
As I said, I'm a writer and a blogger, and I think it is time to just focus on writing and blogging and hoping that whoever it is that makes the decisions for the future of Hive do so with the continuation of Hive in mind rather than just how how they can personally profit from it.
If you want a profit or income from Hive develop something you can sell! It's been almost 10 years since I was excited to find the old chain... (A) almost entirely with an eye towards a blogging and (B) in the hope that somebody would develop a peer-to-peer marketplace where I could sell stuff and make money from actually selling stuff around the world, facilitated by crypto.
I think we have gotten all together to complacent and too used to the idea of Hive as a place that is almost like an employer that hands us out of paycheck for our efforts, regardless of whether we're doing a good job, and whether that job is value at it.
This is clearly not a "cash cow," so maybe we should create something that's actually a business of sorts...
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