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In this post, I'm not going to talk about how great Steemit is for giving a lot of people the opportunity to do what they love and get paid for it, or that it's a great website to find new and unique content to read.

I'm here to talk about the impact of a system like Steemit  gonna have on people living in third-world countries, specifically people without access to bank services.

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So to me, as someone who lives in a third-world country, Steemit solves two problems, or in other words, gives me two opportunities.

The first one is that it gives me the opportunity to work online, and the second one is getting paid by a currency that is border-less, a currency that won't be affected by any capital control that is imposed by most third-world countries on its citizens.  Steemit combine these two aspect flawlessly without the hurdle of worrying about when or how to get paid.

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In my country, I can tell you that People here are willing to create unique posts about something they excel in just for $1 per article, so making something like 4 posts per day will get them in most cases more than they earn in their daily jobs. I already see a lot of people here making at least $100 per post , that's like a ridiculous amount and is beyond the reach for most people .

<center><img src="http://www.designedforlearning.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/create-or-curate.gif"/><br/>*Source: designedforlearning.co.uk*</center>

But for me the best thing that Steemit bring to the table is the introduction of the curation reward. I mean that's what I've been doing at reddit for several years without earning a dime for it. I can see myself spending hours after hours on Steemit reading, commenting and up-voting posts that I see deserve my vote.

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After I got convinced about the potentials of Steemit in the long run, I tried to convince some of my friends to join Steemit, some weren't intersted, some don't speak English well, but at least I was able to convince 2 of my friends to join, they didn't make any Steem yet, but they are still figuring out how to.

So I encourage all people to invite their friends, you never know whom of your friends will end up in Steemit.