Your baseball example reminds me of the movie Major League. There was a character - the catcher, but I don't remember his name - who was rich and comfortable and he was only playing for the money. He had long ago given up caring about the game and didn't want to get injured by putting forth any effort. Only when the team was motivated to win because they found out they were all hired on purpose to make the team lose so they wanted to win out of spite, did he start taking risks and played a lot better game. Bit of a tangent there, but that's what I thought of! LOL
You're right though and honestly, when I talk about Hive to people, do you know what interests people? It's when I say something like, "my vote is now worth 20 cents." Because I'm explaining how me pressing that button as you say, is dropping money on people, and if I keep building my account and/or the price goes up, maybe I'll start dropping dollars on people just for what is essentially a "like." My friends will say, "I want to mutual aid the people!!" This is why I'm kind of the lefty advocate for blockchain. Soooooooooo many people who align with me on many social issues have read some hit piece either just mocking crypto, or the electricity use of Bitcoin, or how it's all greedy Lambo-bros, or some ish and they have it in their head that it's just Wall Street on your laptop ...especially when big corporations started getting interested in Bitcoin. When I try to explain to them that a) all crypto is not Bitcoin, and b) how Hive specifically works, I do get some concessions, like, "OK, I'm not against people helping each other to survive." Like, yeah. That's what we're doing here, or at least some of us are trying to. I'd like to live in the Star Trek future where all our needs are met without money too, but we're not going to get there tomorrow or give up all means of exchange next week. At least this way, people are earning - without having to invest first - and can have the freedom to do so in a multitude of ways, without having to abide by some crappy corporate culture or engage in degrading work or morally distasteful work. It can be a freedom for many who currently don't have that. Homemakers can earn doing their day to day stuff just by sharing a recipe or their gardening tips or their needlework, when that work is normally unpaid. Artists/writers/photographers can earn instead of just being promised "exposure." Poor disabled people like me who can't work a regular job anymore can earn by blogging and rambling on about philosophy and healing. And if you are comfortable enough that you don't need the earnings, you can decline payment or burn it or give it to someone else who does or just stake it and upvote people. Would you rather earn for you and your friends and other individuals, or for Facebook and Twitter?
And frankly, I'd much rather vote for a witness who is a member of the community than pay fees to some massive bank. You don't get to vote on who your bank's board members are. You get to vote on who the witnesses are here!
It was actually the 3rd Baseman who had that outlook. Dorn was the character's name.
You are right. The industry is so focused upon the money, the message is missing. That is why the "testimonials" about how Hive is changing people's lives is important. We need to keep driving this point home to people.
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Yes! Thank you, you're right. The catcher is the one who had the love interest story.