This must be why I immediately felt at home here.
and looking like an idiot more often than not.
Leaving all that aside tho, it will get much worse... or easier with SMTs.
Each SMT can design their own rewards matrix, their own token, their own everything very much. If you stay on the Steemit/busy everything bucket it may become sly impossible to understand what will be going on everywhere. But maybe if you use just one platform, like musing.io for example, you may not give a drat about any complexity and will just be happy if your decent answers get upvoted. And then somebody tells you about upgoats and smartmarket. Bye bye simplicity.
Oh and next there may even be a platform with an account based votin approach, complete with whitelist. And without oracles for that.
Welcome to Steem! 🤘
No it will get easier. People just have to stop be so entitled to Technology. It takes weeks to learn how to drive a car. It takes weeks to learn the Steem Blockchain. This is real life. Things have gotten easier the last 200 years. It will just keep going more in that direction.
It is super simple: post and pray/hope (whichever you prefer) that the magic happens and you get rich.
No. That didn’t work, right.
Or did you mean how 65 apps on mobile phones, all specialized at doing one thing and putting the world, education, and help in everyone’s reach at their finger tips simplified things? Yeah, that didn’t really work either.
But you’re right, technology has simplified a lot. So have all luxuries/comforts we benefit nowadays. At least to those who can afford them.
The question in that aspect is: does having more/easier access actually simplify life than when we had less?
I’m stoic and emigrated from first world to a development nation. I’m enjoying having less. :)
"does having more/easier access actually simplify life than when we had less?" Yes. Life has never been this easy any other time in history as far as we know.
I disagree.
That assumes that everyone has as much access, that there is no peer pressure because of wanting to have the same, and what nots.
Poverty levels are still ridiculously high, many people are indebted to a ridiculous level, only a minority of the world has access to affordable healthcare, and those who have all that all want a TESLA and only few will ever have one all while also being able to actually call it theirs because technically it belongs to their lender.
You know what is a simple and happy life? I walk out here and I see children playing in the street. Unperturbed by technology. Not bothered by wants or things they desire. They just enjoy the day. They are also less subjected to advertising, (fake) news and everything that comes with corporate worlds. Credit card debt is nothing they suffer from either.
No one cares about a gaming console or not being able to afford the latest game their friends play.
Eat, sleep, do what you need to do, and find happiness in the life you have.
Less is more. Absolutely when it comes to simpler and happier life. :)
Technology simplified processes and makes some things also much more accessible but at the same time we have ruined our society by imposing what we think they should all have.
People think they’re pursuing happiness yet they are (mostly) merely consumers.
Great attention to making a comment but I do not agree.
Technology has made people more free. People are having more free time. People are being empowered by technology. It's fine to have desires. Desires is life. Overall poverty levels are down. When you look at the overall trend. Technology is just a tool. You do not have to use it. You can still enjoy everything outside of the tech world.
I don’t disagree with the good of technology.
I disagree with the claim that technology has simplified life. That’s quite a difference.
As for the claim that people have more time... it depends with what era you compare with. Lack of time seems a common complaint nowadays. Especially lack of time for oneself, quality time.
Ever wondered why there’s so many productivity and habit building apps out there? Guess why.
Because most people can not maximize their time and thus how they live. Because for most people modern life is a challenge.
Btw here in the Philippines official poverty numbers were cut in 2011. Mostly because the government’s mathematicians had decided to actually lower the poverty daily living cost, contrarily to the inflation index. Poverty is making a return in the First World as well.
You are logically wrong. Tech has simplifed everything. Abundance has been going up the last 200 years. So you are wrong in all you just said. Go read some @taskmaster4450. Most people are richer in the modern world than a King 100 years ago. You have to look at the overall trend for millions of humans. And they are richer. That is a logical fact.
I think if those creating the SMTs are smart they will use them to simplify the processes and engage users with the lowest possible barriers to start. I think that many who are already based here will complicate them though in the beginning.
I am interested in how this will work.