Most times when I want to tell someone about hive, i most times try to remove the earning part of it because it isn't actually easy to earn on hive. Your introductory post can go sour and things just don't get easy thereon.
However i still tell them that there are opportunities on hive but I do less hahammering on the reward pattern so they don't get disappointed.
An app that can bring people to hive will do a lot. Splinter lands might do a lot.. An online shop that accepts hive and more
There are plenty of opportunities. An online shop that accepts Hive would likely also accept other currencies - so it would be people on Hive using it, meaning they have to be here already. I am interested in why people don't try at all. It is weird.
Exactly. I tried to convince a group of friends of mine to move over to Steem in the summer of 2017. Had they done so while completely ignoring any potential to earn and while continuing to shoot shit just like on Facebook, they'd probably all have accounts worth at least hundreds of dollars by now. Come next bull run those accounts could be worth thousands of dollars. Why turn all that down? The response I got was either a flat out refusal to consider moving or deafening silence.
That was such a shocking experience that I don't think I will ever recover from. I lost a great deal of respect for all these people. In that circle of people, some are "critics of capitalism". Facebook is probably the worst possible example of an exploitative giant social media corporation powerful enough to distort democratic processes in nearly every country on Earth - and demonstrably willing to do so. Yet, these people continue flapping their gums about evil capitalists while demonstrating total impotence even as consumers regarding choosing a social media platform. They are not even useful idiots. Just idiots.
In another comment, I likened this to child labor. People are against it, but also want cheap products.
Except that they are the child laborers themselves.
What do they do when someone comes offering them decent pay? That person gets ignored or scorned at. The worst part of it is that after 5-10 years or however it takes for Hive to grow into a 100x to 1000x bigger platform, the same type of person is the first to express envy and resentment.
Funny eh?
Stockholm syndrome?
"Why didn't you tell me better!"
That's what I keep wondering myself. I think it's likely that it just conflicts their theory of value. It could be countered by saying that there's just a lot of loose investor money around or that the real use case is trading against Bitcoin.
LOL
While that's a possibility, the more likely version is some murmur about taxing the whole thing to death or outright banning it.
Do you have your keys to "crypto island" yet? :D
Fear of the unknown... why would I join when I can stay where I am... Fear of change...
That is definitely part of it. People are far more passive than they think they are. far less creative too. The other platforms can make people feel creative without actually having to do much.