Steeming has clearly played an important role in helping me coming up with some of my most satisfying thoughts and actions over the past year. I really look forward to steeming it up even higher!
And as I've already said: "Maximizing my life's enjoyment while seeking to put an end to unnecessary violence, is the single most fundamental precept guiding my life."
I respect what you have done here for SteemIt and for Minnowsupport. As a member of that "club," I thank you. However, reading what I quoted above...
I'm sorry. That sounds like some kind of a soundbite. Are you trying to channel Dan Larimer? Do you think it's cool to be watching the Miss America beauty pageant and hear one contestand after another come forward and talk about how their goal for winning is to help promote, "World Peace." ???
Well, that's exactly what you started off sounding like. And, excuse me for telling it like it is - but you are hurting my ears. Please STFU!!! Quit tayloring your approach to what you think everyone on SteemIt wants to hear - and start saying something original and authentic.
After that B.S., I can't even be bothered to read the rest of your post. I don't think I could handle that much disappointment and boredom all in the same evening.
Any idiot knows that violence is not the answer to lifes' problems. We don't need you to continue to pound home the point. Yes, you have an amazing talent for pointing out the totally obvious and completely self-explanatory. Now, tell us something we don't already know...
It sounds like you missed it above, so I'll share it in a reply:
"Fiat-money is backed by man with guns."
Fiat currency, I wouldn't call it money, is indeed backed by violence.
Without military powers protecting the banking interests, fiat currencies would have failed long ago. Some people like to suggest that the US Dollar is backed by oil. It's not or at least hasn't been for a very long time. It's backed by military power instead. That's what maintains its value.
The US government demands certain countries continue to use it, and those countries know the consequences for refusal. Look at all the proxy wars and conflicts happening now and in the recent past. They are or were all about securing resources, confiscating gold, or some other economic profit.
Therefore, this isn't a soundbite or gimmick sales pitch. It is a genuine problem, and Steemit is part of the solution. Instead of directly confronting a system we have no chance of defeating, we are instead creating alternatives. We are walking away.
Most people in this thread might not even realize this, but crypto is breaking the centuries long banking paradigm without firing a single shot. No violence is needed. People simply stop using fiat in favor of crypto, and then fiat systems, including all the violence supporting them, end.
That's not a soundbite. That's fucking beautiful.
See, when I come home from work - I can't wrap my head around all of this frilly language. Someone like you has to just put it all into plain English, in a way we can all understand.
If I can't get past the first paragraph of a post, because it sounds like a Unicorn ran down the end of a rainbow to find a pot of gold with whipped-cream & cherries on top - why keep on trying to read the rest of the post. I just roll my eyes and go find the next person who is original and authentic.
Sometimes a persons' approach to a topic can be "too polished." In some of those kinds of cases, i find myself unable to relate.
Awesome comment.
I too don't consider fiat money as money but that's the term used on Wikipedia so that's why I use this term. Funnily enough I've just looked at the page there and here is the first line.
Yes, the "powers that shouldn't be" love to confuse money and currency. I guess an easy way to answer the question, "Is it money or currency," would be "If the government didn't exist, would it still be worth something to other people?" US Dollars, no. Crypto, yes. Precious metals, yes.
I've been looking for solutions to world problems since my very young age. One of my oldest and most memorable moment was about this idea. I'm authentic. You are entitled to your opinions.
The closest thing I could think of as a solution back then was something akin to what we can see in El-P Deep Space 9mm video, where almost everyone is pointing guns at everyone else.
It was more something like an acknowledgement of my incapacity to find a viable solution but maybe violence isn't totally necessary after all.
I'm inviting you and everyone else to put to good use what we know in regard to violence and in the way we express yourself.
I "get" the video. Good one. It's just hard to go through all of the formalities and thinking when I'm tired. An artist can put it into pictures and words for me in a way that an article never can.
Awesome!