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STEEM - What Difference Does It Make?
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When I launched my [Christmas Photo Contest](https://steemit.com/christmas/@cryptoctopus/photo-contest-where-are-you-this-christmas-eve), I didn't realize what would happen next.

What I saw was an incredible display of the human condition all around the world. Wonderful people celebrating the joy of Christmas. From Kiev to Peru with quite a bit of Nigeria!

Then, as I was upvoting the comment section with my 5% "Christmas Upvote" that is worth $3.50 SBD (when cashed out and turned into STEEM is actually worth about $10 US), it hit me and made me wonder:

## What Difference Does it Make?

You see, in Canada, an extra $10 a day doesn't make a massive difference. I may allow for a nice meal with my wife every week at a fancy restaurant or maybe it would pay for a life insurance policy in case something bad happens to me.

But my comment section is filled with people who live in countries where to value of $10 US could means something completely different. Maybe it pays for all of your kids to go to a better school, maybe it allows you to get a better water system to irrigate your farm? Who knows!

#### **This is your assignment for today!** 

Let's say I were to upvote your comment 5 times a week at a value of $10US for a total of $50 USD a week...**What difference does it make in your life? What would you do with that money to make your life and your environment better?**

Don't spare any details. I can't wait to upvote the best comments!

PS: I will start flagging comments that looks like bots, that are too short (ie: nice articles! or <3) and those that makes no sense at all. Sorry for those who may be offended but it's time to clean up.
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@abdullahzahid ·
you are one of the best person in steemit who loves to support newbies...
because of your upvotes I earn money which make me independent ..
because of steemit I don't take money from my parents as they are not rich so thank you for supporting us
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@aboutyourbiz ·
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Even in the US that can be a significant number. $50 a week is $200 a month. That, if used effectively, is a significant number to add to a debt retirement plan. Or beginning a wealth building plan. Or even just adding it to the grocery budget, it's nothing to sneeze at.

Personally, since I have no debt and I'm on a mission to gain SP, everything I gain gets powered up. I'm hoping for the long game play. Applied to SP, it's nothing to sneeze at there either.

So while it may not be as life changing in Western countries as it can be in others, if used with wisdom, it can still be life changing. :)
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@adejoke16 ·
@cryptoctopus 50$ a week will really mean a whole lot! 
50$, why am I on  steemit?  If not for the legitimate opportunity it has,  to top it all,  I am improving on my writing skills, I am getting  better  by the day, interacting with people who are adding value to the society far and large. 
My name is Adejoke,  I'm a Nigerian, I am the 6th from  a family  of 9 , I grew up with  a strict  father who solely believes Education is the one and  only way to be successful  in life,  but you  see, along the way,  I picked up a passion for  making  people's hair at the age of 14, that was how I became the black sheep of my family, my dad never supported it, for me the hairstyling was just it, I just  wanted to be in the  salon,  making people look  good,  then I started looking for an opportunity to attend  a beauty  school but they were really  expensive,  who  was going to fund it,  my mum is just a petty trader, my dad? That's was not  an option, because I was forbidden from the salon and to top it all,  if he finds out,  I went to  any salon, I will be seriously  punished.

I finished  my O'level and didn't  make all my results, my father gave up on me, because my other siblings  were thriving  Academically.
That was the point I made up my mind to  get a Degreee so my father can be proud of me as well. 

I became self sponsored! 
I started working hard to save up so as to  get  money re-write  my exams,  because I was determined,  I got  my papers  right eventually 
and somehow managed to get admitted into the University.
I worked really  hard to put my life together just so my father will be proud of me, even though I  wasn't ready to give up my hairstyling skills,  I continued at it and it's  paying off for me, it has giving me the  ability  to  empower  some  students as well, even  though my original plans were to train and  empower 100 students yearly, because I strongly  believe that one of the best ways  to  decrease the number of people suffering is to give them an honest way of living, with 50$ weekly, this is like a dream coming through.

I also strongly believe that, we go through pain in other to comfort others and not to dwell in self pity, I boldly  share my story  with the youth  I meet along the journey of my life, for them to draw strength, so they can face their fears and  for  them to  keep believing in themselves.
 I will be able to build  a sustainable structure  around my youth mentoring  initiative in  2018, called 'The Purposeful Mind' this is about Youth who are thriving and making a difference in their area of specialization  mentoring  and empowering the Youth from age 15 -25. There is no  amount of money that can quantify  helping  someone define their path. 

Ps: I'm almost  getting  my degree and dad already  said he was proud of me, because I now make people  beautiful and working  really hard to  get my  degree. 


I will keep sharing the steemit opportunity like its a virus!
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@admiralsp ·
Whoa, this is very interesting, if you upvote my comment five times a week and I receive $50 convert to my currency,thats about 200,000.00 Naira, first I would buy my Mom some new bag and clothes, give my Dad some of the money, return some back to my community, then the rest I would invest in my startup.
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@ainie.kashif ·
Hi @cryptoctopus, this is my first comment in your blog. I just found you out yesterday. I was rather skeptical when I was asked to join steemit 3 months ago. I hesitated and could not believe it could change anything in my life as it is. But after being persuaded consistently to do so, I think "Okay I will try this one blogging platform." I never blog my entire life, let alone talking with strangers. My FB was confined to my friends and family only.  On top of that I had never believed that blogging can actually make money. It was in my ultimate dream to work from home, which means I can spend more quality time with my family. Now I spend 12 hours in office, plus traffic jam means only few hours left to spend with my family.

To answer your question. Generating good steady income stream from steemit is now my goal so that I can work my way towards working from home so that I can see my kids growing up in front of my eyes and visit my father more. Aside from the dollar earning point, I have found my niche here. I will continue to spread kindness and positivity among steemians. That's my key writing subject now. With generous contributions from steemian like you will keep that positive spirit going. Thank you for this awesome challenge. Wishing you a pleasant week ahead.
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@alihandro ·
Circulation, entertainment, party. 😎 He spent all the money. 😋💰 💃
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@anamena92 ·
You are such a great human being. I come from Mexico and 50usd is a lot considerating that our slaries are so low. You can eat for 1 month or also paying your rent it depends where in Mexico you are living.  Im so happy to be part of this community because I can be inspire by people like you who helps others. In the future when I set up in Yucatan Mexico and I can afford my piece of land I want to create a space where people can go to connect with theirselves and the nature, where we will grow our own food and we will live in a sustainable way. Im so excited for this project!
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@anotsopopularkid ·
>Let's say I were to upvote your comment 5 times a week at a value of $10US for a total of $50 USD a week...What difference does it make in your life? What would you do with that money to make your life and your environment better?

Here in the Philippines, $50 in one week is considerably a huge sum of money. It can buy my family a festive feast for New Year's Eve celebration, with some slices of "Lechon" (which is a favorite food for fiestas). It's our tradition to always have our "grandest" family dinner during New Year's Eve. It's also a healthy competition for us 4 siblings wherein we prepare a dish we'll serve on the table. With this extra budget, we can buy a more variety of ingredients for more innovation in the dishes we'll prepare. 

I'm thinking of just buying different ingredients without any dish in mind, and with that, we can invent a dish. There's always room for failures in the family, and the process of sharing tips and lending a helping hand in slicing the onions, carrots and etc., is what makes this traditional event very memorable and special for us. 

It's also a time wherein despite our "separate" lives, we can come together and bond as a family -- just like the old days where we were just kids. It's pretty nostalgic, and I won't trade anything for an experience and memory such as this. 

I just got inspired writing this, so I prepared this to give a feel of my story.

https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nDnVgtkAjZ4/WkMdYPFHqpI/AAAAAAAARtc/mOykSWhSWAMkmDStgdjh3IeWMelwFwn4QCLcBGAs/s320/Cook%2BOff%2BChallenge.png

That's me on the right. Ready to make perhaps a pasta dish!
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@arcange ·
Congratulations @cryptoctopus!
Your post was mentioned in the [hit parade](https://steemit.com/hit-parade/@arcange/daily-hit-parade-20171226) in the following category:

* Comments - Ranked 7 with 127 comments
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@artz ·
> What difference does it make in your life? 
What would you do with that money to make your life and your environment better?

Honestly saying that will not change my life. It will be just a big compliment that I can use to gain more Steem Power or play with it on exchanges.

But there are a lot of people for whom such a sum will be a real chance to improve their life. For example, as I know the average salary in India is something about $150.  And your upvotes worth $50 in a week ($200 in a month).
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@azizulhassan ·
first of all thanks for giving me a chance to explain why 10$ extra means a lot to me  you know since i join this industry the online earning industry i have failed since 2 years know but naver give up learn and enplament   faild and faild and know when ever my mom ask me how your work going i said yeah its good one day i will be successfull and i think 10$extra mean a lot to me in Pakistan its very good amount to have and to start something with it to build anew life with it at least i can help someone with this i just want my family be happy raven to i wanna do something for them that all i have to say thanks for the post marry Christmas and happy new year
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@bcuda69 ·
Merry Christmas @cryptoctopus!  I appreciate what you have done for the Steemit community with your informative blog and active generosity.   I have a few projects that have been on hold for almost 20 years.  Your upvote would help me on my way to build an income stream to finish what I have started.
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@beyfendi · (edited)
$1.05
I used to improve myself.Then I worked to make the people around and the life more healthier.I might even use it to get a book to improve myself. This little thing can even be a big step for my life and people... @cryptoctopus
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@cornholio ·
Habla, blah blah blah blah blah, Español for my bunghole...
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@beyfendi ·
Money and life ; it is like olive oil and water.. @cornholio @cryptoctopus
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@bit-news ·
This is the main idea of crypto to be a bit richer and have a normal life, where you can stay with your kids and celebrate Xmas evening instead of working the 3rd shift. let's hope it will open a new area and less poor people in Venezuela, Zimbabwe and other places
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@bitcoinflood ·
For me it gets me that much closer to being able to retire and live a good lifestyle where I am not working every single day. I mean while we are younger we should be enjoying life not when your so old and beat up after working 40 years that you cant move or enjoy what you worked so hard to get to.
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@bitton ·
50$ dollars in my country is not a lot because everything in here is so expensive, but it doesn't mean that we have tons of money, it's exactly the opposite. So it will make a change in my life, Thanks!
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@bloomberg215 · (edited)
$1.66
I agree. People in Third World Countries value $10 so much more than for example in Australia. I will and already do buy a lot of toys to my nephew, since his parents(my sister and her husband) can not afford to do that. I also donate some funds to relatives, who live in Bosnia, where unemployment is more than 60%. We, who are doing better in life, should be very grateful for that.
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@braide · (edited)
$3.75
Hello @cryptoctopus, am Braide from Nigeria. I must say you have been doing a great job so far on steemit. 💜💜💜💜

Your 5% vote is a nice one.
It make a whole lot of difference, For example in Nigeria, A civil servant is being paid less than 40$ for whole month and most times it doesnt come on time, some times it extends to the following month . 

**My Life**
Your upvotes goes a long way to help my academics. University of Port Harcourt is resuming by next  monday, and my hostel rent, tuition fee need to be renewed which is 60$ , your votes will go along way to raise this money. And also through the money I have earned, I could also purchase more goods to help my offline cloth business.

**My environment**
The same way you have extended your votes to me , that's how others earn when I also vote them, in this people are less dependent on the government and  their standard of living is improved.  Life is a circle.💯
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@cakemovesmikey ·
$0.02
You really put stuff into perspective. Seeing the value of Steem go up every few days gives everyone hope of being able to do what they love, be able to post it, and make money off of it. But once you take into consideration that people in some countries could really benefit more with the extra Steem makes me want to really go out there and find new content to give them a boost.
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@camzy ·
>What difference does it make in your life? 

upvoting my comment 5 times a week at that value of 10USD totally makes alot of difference in my life cause of the way i rationed my data schedule to be able to keep up with steemit.
>what am i saying

accessing steemit.com from here is a ripe off for me and others cause of the high cost of data here, i always spend close to $15 a month for data subscription each month just to keep up. *(that is on a month which my payouts would be cool)* 

 >What would you do with that money to make your life and your environment better?

so with the the $50 i think i would spend much time steeming, and i think i would start my steem-art project for curating all art posts and probably build an offline hub for steem artist here in NIgeria
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@chieppa1 · (edited)
$0.02
An extra $50 a week? $200 a month? 

Well, living in New Jersey, the cost of living here is rivaled only by New York and California. So that $200 would most likely be out aside for savings or pay down some CC debt from the holidays. 

My car was recently paid off (thanks crypto), so that payment plus the new $200 would really help build a chunk of change for a down payment on a new apartment, or be set aside for an initial down payment on a house, if my move to a cheaper state becomes a reality.

Of course I could put some of the money back into my podcast or crypto, or simply use it for small monthly vacations (you can do Iceland in a weekend).
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@chukwunalu ·
10$ a day for 5 days will do a whole lot in my life. 
firstly ill be able to pay my school fees which is my paramount priority presently. 
Then ill also be able to get nice little surprises for my parents as they mean the world to me and help out in my neighbourhood with whatever i have left.
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@chullbull ·
nice to meet you ,, great thinking appreciate !!! @cryptoctopus
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@credo ·
50USD in one week, that will be great, I'm from Nigeria and I'm building a community here on steemit called credo community with #credo
#credo is a community to support newbies by mentoring and upvoting their posts till they find their feet on steemit.

I convert all my earnings to SP so a can reward newbies on steemit, If i get 50USD, I will use it to get SP which I will use to help my steemit environment with upvotes.
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@cryptotax · (edited)
I am glad to hear how Steem can change lives in 3rd world countries. It really shows the value of cryptocurrency.  For my use of $50, it won't be a heart wrenching storytelling , but I think it allows  a good general consensus of diverse backgrounds and circumstances;

If I received $50 a week from Steem, I would probably just cash out the SBD and send the Steem back to power up. Or use it to pile up on altcoins. $50 is great to have but not life changing in the U.S.  Money doesn't motivate me on this platform; rather the passion does for the content and enjoying others' content.  In theory, if I was truly motivated by money, the many hours I spent writing my blog, I could've made thousands of dollars even just working a part-time job (even for minimum-wage) to supplement my day job; so I could more productively used my time.  The reality is many in the U.S.  could find a way to make hundreds more a week if they really desired it and actively seek it out(I.E Uber, etc).

Let's say I decided to do eventually cash out this hypothetical Steem to fiat, it would allow me to get more groceries (or higher quality items) every week but, definitely not life's nessecities.
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@dali.soh ·
$0.03
What difference does it make if I have $50 USD?? It would go along way to improve the financial security of my children, ie. going to school, less time working, and more time devoted to the family.
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@danielaver ·
Thank you for the great post! 
Every upvvote can change my life!
When i go to school i don't take sandwich with me because im in hurry, 10 dollars can help me buy food in school for week!
I know it's not a big issue but being hungry  is not fun 😔
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@davidsiedoma ·
Wow $50USD . I am sure you have no idea how much it is where I come from. If I can be getting $50USD every week, Firstly I would start saving so that when it is time for me to go to college which is in a few months time, I will give it to my Parents so that I can go to a good school with good educational standard.
Secondly, around where I leave there are homeless people, beggars and the needy, so if I get the money, starting from now that we are in the festive period I will give them a treat, either by buying food and accessories for them or taking them out or something.
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@dayjee ·
$0.25
Seriously as an individual living in a 3rd world country, If I can get 50$ in a week just from comments it would go a long way I must say, I can take care of my tuition fees and everything that has to do with my school with just that money, There would be enough money remaining to take care of my accommodation and also feeding. 50$ is a huge amount of money over here I must say.
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@thelightreports ·
Better yet get you $50 by creating some rocking content- perhaps by turning the world on to the nuances of your culture?
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@dedicatedguy · (edited)
$9.86
I am from Venezuela where the minimum wage is around 5 dollars per month. The problem here is we have a government control that forbids citizens to freely exchange currencies, so the black market rate for a dollar is incredibly high, reducing the purchasing power of the people, because the majority of things here are imported. 

So knowing this, you must realize steemit is a blessing for us venezuelans. 

**What difference does it make in your life?** it allows me to first, don’t be poor in my country. By getting good upvotes here I can achieve a good income and gain a little of financial independence. I can more easily go out and eat on a restaurant, or simply saving money. That’s a big difference with regular Venezuelans right now that don’t have savings and are struggling to buy basic food. 

**What would you do with that money to make your life and your environment better?** my life can get better if crypto succeeds and I manage to achieve success here on steemit. Better because I will be able to have a higher purchasing power, get a few savings and maybe in the future be able to make investments. I am hoping to buy new electronics next year. Thanks to steemit and the upvotes I receive

About my environment, I don’t know if you mean things like the nature? But anyways, I am trying to promote steemit to the people that I know to see if they join and can start to get involved in the crypto world, because this could be a good help for them.
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@slayer10 ·
I'll be with my boyfriend at Christmas .. We're both college students. We rented a hotel in a nearby sea city and we gave all of our allowance there. we can get a nice red wine with an extraordinary income and Christmas can be more beautiful for us ..
I hope you see my comment
 
@cryptoctopus
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@deepeshgarg ·
$10 does not make much difference in anyone's life. It may help him for few days or few weeks based on the location but it would not help him on the long run.  Yes but if you could somehow help a person to be able to earn for himself  without depending on anyone else then it is upto that person to earn $10 or $100 dollar and makes much difference in his life.
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@dejiayo ·
$0.36
With the current price of sbd I will say if I can receive $50 for comments from you it will go a long way, I just did a rough calculation and it will amount to around 60,000 naira over here in Nigeria. This money can take care of my family feeding for a whole month and we are about 7 in my family.
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@diskorvery ·
$0.31
Without contention, an extra 10 USD daily for one week could make a huge difference here in Nigeria.

In the area where I live and almost every part of the country gas prices have skyrocketed due to a sharp increase in demand for the holiday season and officials seem not to be in control. 

As it stands, this price increase could linger for some time more especially as long as the holiday season lasts. 

As a steemian in this part of the world  who wants to have the best of vacations this season, gas is very essential to make my dream come true.

With 10 USD daily, Ha! My vac is on it's way to being one that never saw power outage.:)

Thank you @cryptoctopus
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@dkid14 ·
Interesting thoughts. If I made an extra $10 dollars a day I would keep doing the same thing I do with almost all my steemit earning. Power up!  I have a good job right now but really would like to go off on my own one day. I feel like blockchain is the way to do that. Steemit and masternodes are my goals for 2018!  

Once I'm off on my own the biggest change I look forward to is more time with my kids!!  Seriously that is the main objective in wanting more free time. I want more time with them. Tons of work to get there. Trying to do more and more each day. 

The coolest part about steemit is I can help people along the way. I should do more of that.
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@doelist · (edited)
My mother gets around 150$ per month. It's my goal to make her be at home, and do whatever she wants. She deserves this. This is my goal to 2018 - earn 100$ + / per month.
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@doris-adioha ·
Well! An extra 50USD a week would make quite a lotta difference. The current dollar to naira exchange rate is 1USD to 365naira. Now if u multiply 50USD by 365 naira, it gives 18250 naira, which is more that the current minimum wage per month of 18000 naira here in Nigeria. So basically an extra 50USD means an EXTRA MONTH'S WAGE, and this would greatly improve my quality of living and giving.
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@dreamcity ·
I want to see my city and the citizens smiling the way i saw public on this christmas eve. We have an organisation where we mutually collects few bucks and make arrangement for the food and improves the condition of shelter we provided to them. Already i am using aa my payouts for that and any increase in my payouts will result in faster improvement of the people who come here hungary.
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@durgaani · (edited)
Hi @cryptoctopus ..i am from india iam doing a small job of salary 8000 indian rupees means 120 usd $ per month that means 4$ per day..it is not sufficient to survive with comfert life... i faced lot of problems in my life for money and i did a so many online jobs but did not get any thing after that my friend told me about the steemit .. i really shocked and surprised  when show the earnins of top users and sbd value is above the 10 $ ..really it is a very useful for every one who want financial stability...if you give a 50$ vote per weak to my comments .it is a very very helpfull to full fill my economical needs..i will take better food and get a  small comfort what i dont have now..it is a very very helpfull to me
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@dysfunctional · (edited)
Hello @cryptoctopus ! I am born and grown in [Bulgaria](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgaria) - an ancient country in Eastern Europe with vast historical and cultural heritage, beautiful nature, city landscapes and women ;). We produce the world's finest sorts of red wine. Our [rose oil](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_oil) has the best quality and we export it to leading cosmetic companies. We have huge amounts of [pure gold](http://raregoldnuggets.com/?p=1533) burried in our land. It is impossible in this single comment to capture all positive sides of my home country, but I suggest you search some information about it - you won't regret if you visit us, I will explain further why. 
In 2007 we were accepted in the European Union, but our currency is [bulgarian leva](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarian_lev) which is approximately 1,67 USD per unit. Take that along with the fact that our taxes are one of the lowest in Europe and Bulgaria becomes the perfect destination for foreign investors and tourism.
So far you might be thinking "What is this guy trying to say? Make me jealous or something?"
Absolutely **no**, my friend. Our homeland is a living hell for it's native population.  Our most precious export is **young talented people**. Oficially our population is around [7,097,796](https://www.livepopulation.com/country/bulgaria.html). But the truth is that we are in a [demographic crisis](https://www.balcanicaucaso.org/eng/zone/Bulgaria/Bulgarians-a-vanishing-people-32347). We are vanishing.  
In the last 5 years over **500 000** people between the ages of 18-25 left the country to seek better education and **normal** living standart.
The average salary in Bulgaria is around 300 Euro per month.	I cannot quote official statistic here, because they are not true and I will explain why later. The pension our grandfathers and grandmothers receive per month starts from 100 Euro (most of them don't get above that). This problem is not due to the lack of money our state can provide. The truth is that [Bulgaria is the most corrupt country in Europe](http://sofiaglobe.com/2017/01/25/transparency-international-bulgaria-is-the-most-corrupt-country-in-europe/). Meaning that whoever reaches some level of power or financial well being successfully steals money from taxes and salaries. More and more companies tend to exploit our working class, hiring them for a trial period of 6 months, paying them partly or not at all. Most of our students never get professional realization after university, because the salaries are hilarious. A worker in Mc'Donalds earns more than an engineer's apprentice. This story is endless and not pleasant so I will stop here.
I am currently 24 years old, I study psychology and work as criminal psychologist in the private sector. I believe that the picture I've so far described to you could change and is up to us to do that. So I think I will remain here and try to fight against it.
So your main question is **"What difference STEEM makes?"**
If I haven't answered that question yet I will only say that if I follow your example parameters (50 USD per week) this means  200 USD per month which is just right around the average month salary in Bulgaria. To me Steemit is a great opportunity to earn money while educate yourself and other Steemians. If you check my blog you will see what I mean. "Knowledge is power". In my case "Knowledge is Steem power" (no pun intended :D ). Invest it in yourself and create a better world for you and the ones who struggle. I hope that this answers your question and if you made it to the end of this post, thank you very much. Peace :)
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@dyz7 ·
I am a university student from Nigeria and am also from a middle class family. The unemployment rate in my country is very high. It is literally impossible to work and study because the few opportunities you can find here are usually over demanding. So I have to wait till the end of every month before I can ask for anything from my parents.
**What difference does it make in your life?**
$10US dollars for five times a week ($50) is equivalent to the minimum wage here. I can't get up to this amount in a month. This amount would really be of great help especially in my studies. This amount of money coming to one person  is considered a luxury. 
**What would you do with that money to make your life and your environment better?**
If I can get this amount of money monthly, I will use it to support my studies so that I won't have to go the extra mile to meet up with my peers. If I get this weekly, I will be happy to also help other people like me in my department.
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@emilclaudell ·
This is a great question. For me, it would mean the difference between not worrying, and worrying. Let me start of by saying that i by no means have it bad. I am a student in Denmark, and i am therefore extremely fortunate and grateful. But that doesn't mean that things doesn't get hard. 
When everything is paid for, rent, electricity, internet, phone etc. i have enough money to buy food every day, which is more than a lot of people can say. It might not be luxurious by any means, but i am crafty with food, and it is enough to stay alive. 

The issue is that there isn't really any room in my budget, at all. Which means that i can't afford an insurance, which is mindbogglingly stupid, i am well aware. Those weekly 50 usd would mean that i could afford an insurance, which would take a ton of stress of my shoulders. *
As of now, i worry that something will go wrong each time i leave my place. That a fire will break out, leaving me with nothing, that there's a break in, that i run my bicycle into someones car, anything like that.  An insurance would help get rid of all that. 
Moreover it would allow me to make a proper meal once a week. One where i don't just buy what is about to expire, but actually pick the best looking vegetables, a nice peace of meat, and something nice to drink. 

If there is anything left, it will likely go into buying steem power, so i can help other users out with time :)

Thanks for asking such a lovely question, i hope you have a really nice evening/ day according to whatever timezone you're in
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@faissalchahid · (edited)
❤
Thanks for reading was fun
If I had the money, I would live the life I dreamed of with my family, which I love so much
I wish I would win a lot in the steemit community
But unfortunately I do a lot but the results are weak
But I will never despair
Thank you bro
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@fitzgibbon ·
$3.55
For you it might be just upvotes, but $50 per week can amount up to $ 2400 USD per year. For many people in Africa, this could support them and their families, as it's more than the average annual salary!

[source](http://global-growing.org/en/content/fact-7-about-three-quarters-african-population-live-less-2-half-population-less-125-day)

If you really continue this, you will be the reason some children can go to school, some folk will get the medical care they need, you will end up making the difference between a life in poverty and a life where opportunities arise and people may thrive.
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@flauwy ·
Of course I could now list all the great things I might do with an extra $50 a week but to be honest my first concern is always to provide for my family and pay rent and food. That means that I would first calculate how much of that would pay for my basic living costs to create a stable and healthy environment for my family. ($50 a week would cover about a third of what I need here in Costa Rica). 

Then, with all additional income I can start planning for all the glorious Steem projects that come to mine. I guess for me the best thing I can do is giving back by creating more and better video tutorials with the best tech to make life easier for the flood of new Steemians who are about to stream in.
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@flowily ·
I am not a kid but any upvote makes me believe in Steemit as project. I started with a 0 , well almost 0 and with a time made a little progress which I am proud of. Any vote that i get will be spent in crypto world, raising portfolio and investing in potential ICO. It is not creative but truth.
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@fproductions ·
$1.98
Total agree with you. $10 real makes a huge difference other developing countries. If you annualized this $10 it will be average salary of many countries.
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@frank1in ·
in my country the average salary is 250-300 rubles, it is 120-150 $, to receive this money people come to go through a lot. Unemployment is growing in the country now, so the workplace is hard to find, and there are many who claim it.
Personally, I, part of the money, helped my parents who needed help, and left the other part to pay for their education. Since getting education is not cheap (another city, it is necessary to rent housing, to eat and move ... this is not taking into account the fact that many services at the university are paid), I consider it very important for a man of the 21st century.
and that what remained was decided on the accumulation by investing in cryptovagnets (I understand that for investments it is small amounts, but I'm talking about a sequential accumulation)
such a bully, $ 50 a week, for my country, very bad money that will help.
Thank you for helping people
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@futuremind ·
An extra 50 dollars a week would increase my yearly income by about 20 percent. That would be a significant difference in my life. Initially I would Power up my seem account.
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@gandhibaba · (edited)
Let me begin by letting you know that I am from Nigeria, where, according to World Bank statistics,  about 70% of the population (over 200 million)  of the vast country lives on less than one dollar per day. Many persons are living in abject poverty with little or no access to drinking water. 

Following this background, $50 per week is relatively a huge amount of money for many families. If I get $50 weekly, which is about 17,500 naira when converted to Nigerian currency, I will be able to provide quality food daily for at least 30 homeless children suffering from malnutrition.

Alternatively, $50 can provide 20 school sandals for children attending public schools barefooted. If I get  this money, I can easily help the people around me and even post the pictures here for you to see.

Let's make the world a better place.
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@gauttam ·
$2.17
First of all thanks a lot for supporting us and helping us to grow on this platform. I belong to a middle class family so my parents can't afford much, I used to sit at home and prepare for my competitive exams. Now with your huge upvotes I can afford to go to the library and pay my PG rents that's a huge support for me. I thank you from the bottom of my heart for helping us to achieve the desired goal of our life. May God bless you with all good things in your life.
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@ghulammujtaba · (edited)
<blockquote>Let's say I were to upvote your comment 5 times a week at a value of $10US for a total of $50 USD a week.</blockquote>

$50 - 25% = 37.5 (Net Author Reward)

37.5/2 = 18.75 SBDs

Current SBD price = $9.35

18.75 * 9.35 = $175.31

$1 = PKR 111

So, 175.31 * 111 = PKR 19,459

After getting 18 years of education in accountancy, I am able to earn PKR 50,000 in a month and I can earn 39% of my total monthly salary from your 5 upvotes :) 

Okay, I look like a beggar now but I'm not, I am happy with what I have, just documenting the facts :)
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@gniksivart ·
$0.49
I've been able to purchase 3 oz of silver (3 steemit 2017 silver rounds) thanks to the increased price of steem and SBD. I never thought I was going to be able to afford one, let alone 3 2017 rounds, but thanks to Phelimint.com accepting steem and SBD I was able to afford 3. 

Also, thanks to increased price and earnings I was able to talk with my in-laws about the importance of crypto and were very impressed with the amount that I've earned from steemit even though it's only been $1000 to this point.
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@gokhan83kurt ·
I am in Turkey. And with that $50 per week makes $200/month which means that i will be able to buy a battery powered car for my son or pay out the annual car of my car. Or maybe i can fill my refrigerator up to the end of the month.
In order to make a better environment with this amount, i would buy solar panels for my house untill i turn all the electricity system to a stand alone solar system. Cause i know that generating electricity from fossil fuel will be humanity’s end.
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@gold84 ·
$0.58
@cryptoctopus I totally agree with what you state here. Imagine if 10usd make a difference in Canada, what difference it makes to Venezuela, Argentina, Brazil, and third wold countries in Africa, and other parts of the world. You definitely make the day of many people with this king of powerful upvotes!

I wanted to let you know that I just finished my 11 chapter guide to help new visitors, new signups, new users to make their way on the platform, and I mentioned you in the first post and many others.

Your thoughts are greatly appreciated, and more on this one. I would like it to reach the more possible hands that will really take advantage of this.

Here is the post if you have the chance to take a look at it.
https://steemit.com/steem/@gold84/chapter-1-of-11-have-you-recently-sign-up-on-steemit-and-don-t-know-what-to-do-first-basic-things-for-new-people-make-their-way
I will continue posting the next chapters I have been preparing for several weeks.

Thanks for helping me learn lots of things from the platform @cryptoctopus

Looking forward to your feedback!

Regards, @gold84
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@grace-ambassador ·
Seriooously?????  $50 USD a week, that's 221.7605 Ghana cedis, that is my allowance for 6 weeks, that means I don't have to bother my dad for my allowance for 6 good weeks, SIX WEEKS, come on this is too good to be real. $50 USD just for me and I alone, that's going to be a life saver man. That is going to turn destinies around, trust me. lol . it's more like a dream come true
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@gratefulayn ·
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@gtan ·
To us in Nigeria, 50USD is a big amount, we earn about 50USD as minimum wage for a month here. The cost of internet is expensive here too, there are many people who don't blog daily because of no internet data.
If i get this money, I will  use it to buy unlimited internet access, which i will make open for members of my environment to connect and access the internet.
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@gzmgndgdu · (edited)
$0.07
I consider it as fund when I work for education because the dollar is very valuable
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@haarshan36 ·
Thats very true, for example in my country Malaysia 1USD to equivalent to RM4. with 1 USD people could have a simple breakfast here so if it were to say 50USD its equal to RM200, with this can last for weeks in my country :)

Thanks for sharing this @cyproctopus 
WIll do Resteem and upvote this!
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@hackerwhacker ·
In India  , 50 USD equals around 3500 Indian Rupees. An entry level software engineer makes around 15k -20K INR. So 50 USD is probably a weeks salary for them. An software engineers are supposed to be highly paid in India. So time for them to start steeming and work for steem instead of some multi national companies that make them work 10 plus hours a day.
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@kartiksingh ·
Exactly..!
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@hamzaatiq · (edited)
Hello sir you have written amazingly please keep helping us with new info and i hope you will help us a lot. I want to learn some thing new and i think you will guide me a lot. I have also posted some content i hope you will give a feedback to improve my skills thanks.

this is my work i hope you will like it 

https://steemit.com/steemit/@hamzaatiq/how-to-avoid-cheetah-tips-to-make-unique-articles-and-publish-on-steemit

https://steemitimages.com/DQmfF6nGwrdXd5x1fNW12Zg5TWQFo5kAtZdQW9SKzBHr7gY/cheetah.png
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@hanen ·
I missed the contest, but i checked it now. It is amazing to see people from all over the world celebrating in different ways. Steemit made us one nation :)
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@harpooninvestor ·
It's a great point about relative value of money thru the world.
Here's maybe a great point about "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto?".....?

https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@harpooninvestor/did-nick-szabo-solve-nick-szabo-s-biggest-bit-gold-problem
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@hilmi ·
Hy my brother do you want to upvote my blog this one.I hope my brother want to make me happy in this day.

https://steemit.com/news/@hilmi/between-yearning-and-grief-families-of-tsunami-in-aceh-345b7cc6cbca9
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@hornblende ·
$1.68
$10 worth of Steem really makes a lot of difference here in Nigeria. With the spike in the price of steem/sbd, if you change $10 to fiat currency you can use it to get enough data to last you for two months. 

With $50 I can pay my school fees for a full calendar year. So if I make $50 a week,  it will make my studies easier, I won't think about how to get materials to study and settle other issues.

Also with $200 that is if I  save for 4 weeks, I could get myself a laptop because right now my laptop is bad. 

Thanks @cryptoctopus for this wonderful opportunity, I feel honoured.
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@hossainsohag · (edited)
Sir .actually your one update is like a xmas gift in comment section most of the people dont read blog and tell nice post .for a upvote.here we all come together for money .if a little poor man smile when you upvote their post then dont get angry make them happy. Caz your one upvote can make then smile. If you could bring 10 peoples smile. God will be happy with u.there will be no difference u can go a well established restaurant but you cant bring happiness of 10 people . I hear about some people works here not for money they donate all money of upvote to poor people of bangladesh india a nigaria. You are part of them .there will be no difference sir .let them comment 😊
Bring their smile sir ...
U Will be rich from heart from some people. 


1 upvote 1 smile there will be no difference
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@htetwaihin ·
Great...
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@iamjadeline ·
What difference does it make in my life? 
It will be a huge different. For intro, I quit my job as a tutor ever since my 2nd son was born with CDH (congenital diaphragmatic hernia) to take care of him at home. He has smaller right lung and we can't afford to expose him to infection yet as it may take his life. So this left my husband alone as breadwinner. We use to earn together so that we can use the money for family and church expenses. My husband is the lead pastor of the church and I am co-pastor. So your vote will certainly make a huge difference in my life and my 1st thing is of course to use it for daily expenses so that I don't need to get from my husband whom already lay down to support the church.

What would I do with the money to make my life and environment better? 
Firstly, I always believe to tithe 10% to church. This will help alot for the running of the church. Secondly, of course will spare the for house expenses so I won't need to ask from my husband. This can ease his burden abit and thus he can also spend more for church expenses. Overall the whole life and environment will be better. House bills paid off. Church bills paid off. 😊

By the way I am from Malaysia and we use Ringgit Malaysia.
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@idunique ·
$0.05
Down here in Nigeria,  where I have to do some extra curricular jobs to make ends meet as a student,  it hasn't been easy. 

Such an Upvote can pay my school fees for a session, it's a Federal University, it can really go  a long way to make life easier.
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@investwarrior ·
$4.05
In Estonia for ~200 usd or ~ 165 euro i can pay bill for my apartment ,internet,electricity and mobile phone at winter ( heating cost like 80 % of bill) :) For making life better and my environment i think need to start with my parents for them its extra money to drugs ( they are 60 years old and here pension is like ~ 250 euro per month , so without work its super hard to survive for them , and all drugs and pills cost like in high end european country. )
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@ir3k · (edited)
$0.16
I'm from a small town in Ukraine. 
My monthly pension is very small, about 50 dollars.
Steemit is a blessing for me, by getting good upvotes I will not be poor in my country! 
I  will be able even achieve financial independence. 
With $ 50 a week I will be able to buy not only basic food and  basic things, but also buy toys, books and fruits for my grandchildren, I have seven of them!
And I will be able even to help people around me with $ 50 a week!

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@ir3k · (edited)
$0.24
I live in Ukraine. I'm middle-aged teacher. I get a small pension, but I still work a little with the pupils.
It is important for a teacher to look good. I'll be able to dress well with $ 50 a week. 
To teach my pupils well, I must be energetic and healthy.  I'll be able to buy healthy good food with $ 50 a week!

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@jaff8 · (edited)
With $10 in Nigeria you can get 3 square meals a day. Like you said, in a third world country it means a lot. The minimum wage here is about $56, really sad. It makes the country a hell for alot of persons. The more reason for the increase  of persons from third world countries on Steemit. I have a project I'm working on, if I can get the needed support from you, I'm certain it wil work out well.
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@jakeybrown ·
I live in the states and have a great job, an extra $50 dollars a week wouldn't go very far, but it would take some pressure off. Raising a baby, having a mortgage, and trying to eat healthy are all small problems compared to some on here. They could use your vote more than me, I'm just here to take part in this great community and start blogging(I've been putting it off).

There are so many people on steemit and even more people not yet here who could benefit from this and other cryptocurrencies that are looking to provide a universal basic income like the coin @taskmaster4450 manna:

https://www.mannabase.com/?ref=75a36c201e

Nice heartfelt post, you seem like a genuinely good person
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@jeezzle · (edited)
I am a waiter who spends most of my day working at a restaurant.   I manage to come home several times during that day to take a quick break and post on my blog.    I've been doing this since March.

Work,  run home.... back to work.  Work,  run home..... back to work.

 My goal is the same as anyone's goal.

...... to become rich in cryptocurrency and also to become successful on steemit.

I'm doing pretty well on Steemit at this point.

 I love to blog and I love the community, and I especially love to write fiction stories.

Would an extra $50 a week make a difference to me?   It would mean that I could take a shift off of work and that would mean a lot given that I don't actually have any days off and I work 7 days a week.

Having said that..... I think there are many people that could use the money more than I could.

Therefore I will state that I'm not interested in winning anything here. I hope you give your weekly vote to somebody that needs food for their kids or something like that.

 I've been a longtime follower of yours but this is the first time I've ever been able to post within the first 10 minutes.
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@jeline ·
@cryptoctopus, thanks for this opportunity. $50 a week would make a huge difference in my life, for just commenting on your posts.  If commenting can give me more, honestly I'll keep doing it. I'll invest the money on cryptos, so that I can have much more. And with the profit, I'll be able to foot my bills comfortably, assist my family and give a helping hand to those around me. So, your $50 a week would make me a crypto queen, lol.
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@jgvinstl ·
I would take that 50 and use it for video cards. I have a fund started so I can build my own homemade mining rigs. 

I have all the other components, just need 6-12 AMD 580s.

Then I mine those sweet, sweet bits!
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@joeparys · (edited)
Hi @cryptoctopus First, thank you so much for creating this post and inspiring us to share what we would do with the little extra. For me the answer is an easy one, and that’s reinvest it directly back into this amazing community. What I think goes overlooked a lot in life is the attention to details. Every upvote counts. Every Pennie counts. And I am personally grateful for everyone who has ever supported any of my work. Example, today I got an email from someone who saw my Christmas Post here on Steemit (linked here: https://steemit.com/steemit/@joeparys/merry-christmas-gift-giveaway-free-crypto-courses-inside) Now this person missed the free giveaway but still found the time to reach out and provide valuable feedback. So, I decided to give them one coupon code free. Will they even enroll in the course? Maybe... maybe not... but let’s say that person does and they join Steemit. And then they post something that helps another persons life.. is that worth the 2 minutes of inconvenience it took to respond and create a coupon for this person. I believe so. So to summarize... if you or anyone else decided to upvote any of my current or future posts (I think you have upvoted a few already actually lol) know that the rewards will be going directly back into this community. Thanks again for the opportunity to write this, and you’ve inspired me to take action and create a post myself! I’ll link it here in a little while. Here is the video and post on Steemit: Thanks again @cryptoctopus for sharing this with us!  https://steemit.com/steemit/@joeparys/success-is-in-the-details-what-would-you-do-with-an-extra-source-of-income

Sincerely,
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@joeycrack ·
I am a Nigerian, a graduate with no job yet I have managed to keep things going with my little skills in computer repairs and am currently learning to be a .Net developer the bill is quite expensive I have been paying up in installments but it's difficult having to survive daily whilst paying those bills I don't really know if I can meet up eventually but am really trying to because here in Nigeria, with the way things are I know I need an exceptional skill set to keep my head above waters it's why am never going to give up on this no matter how difficult it might seem.
So what difference would 50usd make in my life?
It's would give me hope of a brighter future to come and also help me ensure that my dreams come true and when its does, even if I may not be Able to pay you back for the kind gesture but I would ensure that I also assist others in making their dreams come true by so doing you wouldn't have reached out to me alone but to alot of others. So I guess 50usd a week is going to make a lot of difference not just to me.
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@josefinemk ·
In Denmark the minimum wage is 110 kr equal to around 18 USD or 22 CAD. Compared to other countries it is quite a lot. We do however have extremely high taxes (first you pay 8% and afterwards you pay 38% or more of the rest). There is a no-tip policy and rent is super expensive. If you want to have a normal apartment for two people in the city where I live you can easily get to pay 1800 USD as a couple - before utilities. Therefore as a student, as you might have guessed, 50 USD would make a big difference for me. I would be able to actually take my boyfriend out for a meal (not a nice one, but just being able to go out would be really nice), which I've been wanting to do for a long time :-)
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@journeyoflife ·
$5.26
It’s not offense because we should realize that people take lot of time creating content and it’s for us to engage and connect with one another on. You did not care and gave out rewards with a big heart and it should be used the right way. Props to you for that
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@junaknoni ·
Personally as a student.
Making 50 $ a week would be as though making a month salary of a civil servant as the minimum wage as of now is 50.040$ here in Nigeria.
As if that's not enough, The education standards keeps getting higher, as such making education pretty hard for the masses.

Well sir, @cryptoctopus , as a  newly admitted student of the university... 50$ would actually go a loooong way in setting me up academically and financially.
 Thank you.
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@junfadriquela · (edited)
Whatever value you give to the Steem community by doing upvote and making people do quality posts and comments will surely benefit someone or somebody whoever he is. 

Rewards and benefits for me always motivate people to do more and once they are on top, look back and give back to communities.  

It is always come natural to people to help especially when he is capable of helping in his own way! 

Cheers for this post.
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@justinomora ·
@cryptoctopus: "in Canada, an extra $10 a day doesn't make a massive difference"

But in Venezuela, where average monthly salary runs about 1.7 STEEM at current prices, 1 SBD worth 7.8 USD means BsF 780,000 which is almost twice the minimum basic salary.

You could not do much with it, but at least you can buy some food for a month of living.

Venezuela is under Communist Socialist Hyperinflationary forces where even Managers do not make more than 4 SBD a month, but Food Prices measured in USD are higher than international prices and grow at least 2 digits inflation a month. 

That is why I called Steemit, in one of my post: *The Truly Liberator of Workers* in inflationary economies.

Since publishing that article I have been marketing Steemit heavily.
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@justinomora ·
@cryptoctopus: *"Let's say I were to upvote your comment 5 times a week at a value of $10US for a total of $50 USD a week..."*

I would keep $10, and spend $40 marketing Steemit to People of my Country so they can benefit, too. Currently I am burning somewhare 2 or 3 SBD on this project.

*"What difference does it make in your life? What would you do with that money to make your life and your environment better?"*

With $10 I can give it to my wife, so that she quit her job and start Steeming. She makes half to it, right now.

Regards, @JustinoMora from the Land of HyperInflation, Venezuela.
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@kalemandra · (edited)
10 USD worth about 2,600 Ft in Hungary. That means you can eat good (but not luxury)dinner in a restaurant for this amount. This money is also enough to cook a vegetarian dinner for 4-6 persons, but not enough if my family want to eat good quality meat.
10 USD/day is 52,000Ft/month (20 workdays), almost a half of a minimum  monthly salary or a full payment for public workers (for example a scavenger).
10 USD is enough to travel to Miskolc from Budapest (almost 200 km) by Oszkar carpooling service, and enough for 7 public transport tickets in Budapest, and almost 9 tickets in Miskolc. But I cannot buy a good book for it.
For 10 USD, I can buy some great pieces for clothing if I'm lucky to find them in a second-hand shop. In addition, they are quite good quality. But, of course, cannot buy new  and quality shoes, I need 10 times more money for them.
Finally, I don't want to ask you to upvote my posts, there are many other people who need it more. I hope you find them!
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@kamchore ·
Seriously i don't know what to do with these money, 50 USD means rs 5250/week. May be its a good choice  to utilize this money by  payinh my internet bill, to do charity charity and used this money for steem promotion.
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@kartiksingh ·
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50 $ is about  3500 inr (Indian ruppes) ....this fund is enough for me to pay for food  for 1 month ...or 3 months primary school fees for  a child,,,
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@kawaiipower ·
Hi, I sign up for SteemAuto but when I go to fan base, it kept saying "waiting for account name".
Please help me, it has been like that for 2 days....little frustrated....
Thank you!
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@keban ·
Wow, just saw this post now, but I still wish to answer this question, am @keban from Nigeria, $50 SBD is worth about 198000 naira, this will be able to take care of my electricity bill, my feeding as I eat enough, my data charge and my security charge for over 2months, I'll still have extra for transportation, of course it will also be enough to get to the cinema, talk to some friends about steemit while I buy them some drinks, with the change I'll add it up to give to someone in need maybe a family member or a friend in need, $50 SBD can do a lot here in Nigeria. Thank you
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@keensleigh · (edited)
$0.04
Well, for me it means a lot...coz as a mother of two , $50 could be a great help for us to survive, to lighten my financial burden. That could help us  to buy my baby's food since he likes eating a lot as he gonna  turn 2 soon. My first born who is 10 needs to continue his vitamins/supplement coz he is not gaining weight. I try to be an active member of steemit to earn extra income while learning lots of things. Thanks for the people like you @cryptoctopus who has a big heart and willing to extend help to fellow steemians who are in need. More Power !
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@kingsolo ·
Hello @cryptoctopus your observavation on what a $50 upvote could meant to the life and environment of an average individual raises a very important aspect of our being that need to be address. The truth of the matter is that what is insignificant to an individual is very significant and of utmost importance to another individual. I am from Nigeria, a country where the standard of living is very low. Here, an average citizen lives below $1 per day.

Here is my analysis of your question from a Nigerian perspective.

<center>Presently, 1SBD=$8.1 USD (as at the time of writing this comment)</center>

<center>So, $50SBD=$405 USD</center>

<center>Also, $1 USD=N325 NGN</center>

Therefore, your $50 upvote in a week is equivalent to **N131,625 NGN**

**WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE IN MY LIFE?**
This amount is far more than the average monthly income of many Nigerian citizens who are under paid employment. Getting an upvote equivalent to this sum has set me on a path of being a business owner in a shortest possible time. With that money from you, I can start a small scale business that has the potential of fetching me between $5 - $10 income on daily basis. That is a major breakthrough in the making for me.

**WHAT DIFFERENCE WILL THE MONEY MAKE IN MY ENVIRONMENT?**
Here in Nigeria, the quality of education is very poor. It begins from the grass root and goes up to tertiary level. There is need for the intervention of private sector of the economy to raise the standard of our education system. With this money, I can conveniently adopt a local community primary school and provide the pupils with basic learning and educational materials. This move can create a chain reaction from other private stakeholders who can join the move to ensure that our education system is upgraded.

Thank you.
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@kingyus ·
50 $ is a month salary that can feed an entire family lol
what would I do with it? 
I don't know really but I don't like short term plans, sometimes they are good but they tend to not fix the problem that;s why I would probably re invest it in steem... 
or maybe I will make an open contest for the best ideas to make more money essentially in hope for a whale to notice and sponsor it
the best ideas will get proportionally rewarded

ofcourse if  it was for an entire year then that would be a whooping 2400 $ meaning I could lock it in a loan in a bank at 20% and retire... lol
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@kivsha · (edited)
Well - as I am a med student in Israel, and I can't afford not to work because rent and livelihood are so expensive - I have to sacrifice an hefty portion of my precious learning time to work and earn money so me and my wife will be able to support ourselves. it's needless to say it harm my scores and more importantly - my knowledge.

If I had this 50$ per week you speak about - as 1 dollar is 3.5 New Israel Shekels - I will be able to take down my workload dedicate about 6-7 more hours a week to learning medicine -get better scores and more importantly - become a better doctor.
So yes - to a working man in my country 50$ a week is a nice pocket money, but for a third of 7 years medical student like me - it makes a real difference.
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@ledjo1991 ·
$0.24
Good Project ! Kind of you to gift something for Christmas :)
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@lowestdefinition ·
This is a beautiful idea! Instant upvote.
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@madlenfox ·
In my country$ 50 a week is not a lot of money. For me, in real life they don't make a big difference. This is 3 000 rubles. I would not convert to Fiat. I would leave the money in the system Steemit. Because I try as much as I can to help others who are weaker. I could give more support and more of my votes to a larger number of people here. I started one year ago. And I remember how hard it was at the beginning of my journey. Thank you @cryptoctopus
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@madushanka ·
@cryptoctopus, Firstly thanking you for helping to peoples from use your vote power. Its really growth work in steemit platform. I'm a medium family in South Asia country with individual working here (Pvt) company. My mom, father, wife also me indeed my family. All of expenses spend from my salary. My monthly salary not enough maybe for our family expenditure. So I do more overtime hour working. Anything here in my country  maximum worth indeed. Medical costs huge amount. 
So I refer to say you 50 USD *4= 200 USD equal my monthly income here. So your vote power would be massive assistance for me near the life goal and recover some expenditure. Stay blessed for do more providing work in this platform.
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@magnata ·
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I live in a small city where it is almost impossible to find a job and if you find that a payroll fee will be from 7000 to 10,000 thousand rubles in dollars it is 200 $. For me, $ 50 per week is 3000 rubles. This is a very good increase. In the past three weeks, I began to feel quite different earnings on Steemit and I really like it. Thank you for the article.
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@maraki ·
Reading the comments makes me feel so inspired and unworthy of an upvote! Ten dollars a day would mean so much to me, but holy crap, reading the comments makes me so grateful for what I already have. Thanks for helping create an environment for inspiration, and motivation @cryptoctopus!
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@marygrac · (edited)
well sir thanx to give this assigment to help us i m from phillipin and here is we work hard all of us family but on the end we get a small sallery there for i start steemit and i m happy that i get a hope from this to do some better and around the 10usd is a big appricieate for us and help bcz it is increasing the the amount of our sallery and ur upvote is big help for me and on christmass ur 4$upvote is my biggest upvote and gift from u bcz  my all upvote which i get on christmass are small from 1$....thanx to helping all of us with ur upvote and i hope i will earen more from steemit and one day all of my family will happy and GOD give us more joys and earning which give us the eveything and complete our all aims specially a bearutifull house and a car..because if i get a upvote from u of 10usd daily it is more highest earning from my whole family bcz if we work 3 person a time we dont get sallery 300usd in whole month
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@mejustandrew ·
I understand you, I had a fight with some spammers on the *introduceyourself* tag. Well, to answer your question, for me 50 dollars a week, it is something now that I think about it. I was luck on the other side.

I live in a country called Romania, it is an east european country, where the minimum salary (which my parents have) is around 300$ a month (after it got pretty fast increasd from around 225).  This is what parents had when they have sent me to college. And I had my economies of 1000$ which I managed to save all my time until I got 18 years (I was working after school and helped people for few money). That was my money for the college, but thwy have another story. When I say that I got lucky I mean that my parents supported me to go to the college. There I have worked hard to get employed as a software developer which I did over two years after starting the college. I payed myself the remaining half of the college,including my rent and food. I started to become independent. Now I am getting close to three years since I work at the same company, I got promoted and I earn a bit more than double the both salaries of my parents together. But this is still an average salary even in my country. Here are a lot of poor people and just a few very rich which is not fair at all since most of the rich here have not build their success on legal and fair business, but the corruption of the system is another topic. Right now 50$ a week you see that for me do not mean that much as they would make a difference as for people as my parrents who could afford better food. I guess if I had that money (I could take a part of this sum, at least, from Steem right now, but I think holding and powering up are better options) I think I will be using that money to buy an apartment and pay the credit from the bank and stop staying in a rented house. But I don't deserve that money since for me they don't make a lifesaving difference, as I said, I got lucky (I think?). I know there are countries much poorer than Romania which needs your help. Congrats for the good initiative, I totally respect it!
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@mental-extract ·
Absolutely awesome project!
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@mhmtdr0 · (edited)
$0.26
I want to visit different places with my girlfriend

The dollar is very valuable in our country and a small change can have very good consequences

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@mikepm74 ·
$0.02
This is a wonderful way to look at things!  See the perspective from which other people are coming at things, and how much this platform, and this reward system can mean to them!  Yeah, here in The US $5 isn't much, so as nice as a $5 upvote is for me to get, it doesn't change my life.  But some people on here, it can be the difference between feeding their family or not.

I hope you have the opportunity to reward a lot of people for whom your upvote can be a big difference in their ability to make a living!
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@miti ·
Hi @cryptoctopus, this time i think i don't participate to your initiatve. 
Here in Italy, $50 are least than € 42... Not too much ti do something important.
I think there are persons that need it more than me and will use it to do Hi @cryptoctopus, this time i think i don't participate to your initiatve. 
Here in Italy, $50 are least than € 42... Not too much ti do something important.
I think There are people Need or more than me and will use or ti do something important forum their family. important for their family.
Great initiative!
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@moneyinfant ·
We lived in Thailand for 6 years and that $50 a week would be enough to pay rent for most Thai families with some to spare. In smaller villages it could feed several families. It would provide immunizations for dozens of kids each month.

For me here in the U.S. you're right, the $50 a week isn't huge, but since I would keep it in the Steemit ecosystem to help upvote others and increase my SP so my votes counted for more I believe that long-term (over the course of several years) that $50 a week could be a huge help to many of the people I befriend here.

With the extra SP from your upvotes I could soon enough be offering the same help to others through my own upvotes - effectively doubling the value of that $50 weekly upvote.
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@mountainjewel ·
I really appreciate you're thinking along these lines. I live in the US off the grid and in a pretty poor part of the US. We grow a lot of our own food and are trying to get a lot of our needs met on the land. That said, our monetary needs are pretty small, but with the money we do make on steemit we're dreaming of buying fruit producing trees and plants! Turning crypto world realties into a tree here, a tree there. As we increase the diversity on our land, we want to propagate the plants and keep passing them on to create a world where more people have fruit and nut trees and plants in their yards! 10$ can be 1/3 of a tree or 4 packs of seeds. That's why I love steemit, making $$ writing that can help me create the world I want to live in! <3
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@munawar1235 ·
$1.50
Thank you for your kindness which is incredible. For me, USD50 a week is enough money to pay my bills of rented house which are not easily affordable. When I am happy, my family is happy, that is happy life for me.
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@occupywallets · (edited)
Well, I am blessed and cursed with an excess of creativity and levity... It's a blessing, to take my asperger's traits and utilize the good parts... To write novels, record albums of music, draw endless cartoons, teach myself video animation... I truly follow my bliss...

But it's also a curse because I was born without the marketing gene... I have somehow never been able to put my ideas in front of the right eyes or ears! Never found a publisher, agent, or venture capitalist to help me get some earth-saving projects off the ground... See, it it another autism trait, that I am really bad or awkward in social situations... I take everything literally and can't do smalltalk for the life of me... That has led to chronic unemployment, being supported by family who can't do it forever... It worries me...

Your upvotes would be nice, and I would build my thing here into something that could model creativity and integrity to other steemit users... Although what I could really use is a benefactor to invest in me, a producer... And I wouldn't say these things, if I didn't have 25 years of developing my artistic voice...
(One of my cartoons, for example purposes...)
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@olawalium ·
Hello @cryptoctopus 
I really admire what you are doing and it delights me to see your big heart in this. Giving is more refreshing when you give to someone who might never be able to repay you. Thank  you for this.

**What difference will it make in my life?**
I am from Nigeria, $1 = 370 naira (local currency), so $50 a week would give me 18,500 naira which when multiplied will give me twice my salary. It will enable me to get the desired financial stability i need to increase my farming business from the small scale it is currently because bank rates here are not advisable for small scale businesses.

**What i will do with the money to make my life better and my community**

I love agriculture and i deal with laying birds and also broilers. I do fruits planting too. It will increase my capacity for more birds acquisition and also in a little way benefit my local community with easy access to eggs which they go extra miles to get and also create employment as i can employ someone or two in the distribution of eggs which will improve their standard of living too in addition to whatever they are doing too.
Thank you.
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@olesia ·
Всем привет) я здесь новая. Не  знаю пока что и как писать. Но очень стараюсь. Я живу в Украине, здесь тоже заработная плата не радует. Поэтому приходится искать в интернете заработок для души. Буду рада общению и дружбе!!!
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@otemzi ·
$1.65
Okay as at late this year my fees was kind of shocking on me and I was a little out of cash until @destinysaid introduce me to steemit and paying of that fee never a been problem to me anymore.

Although, sometimes I wished I joined earlier but everything I believe have its time.

With that amount I could get my family a nice gift, together combined with my savings, probably get a new pc as I intend to become fully involve with steemit coming this year and also invite as many other people to join and benefit from this great platform.

My time here on steemit, shows me that human can really be caring when opportunity presents itself and I intend to give back someday, it can be tomorrow or next, but the mean time I will invite as many users as possible and if internet connection ever becomes a problem for them to startup I will try my best to provide with the little I have.

Thanks
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@pathan ·
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@pathan ·
I AM NEW PLEASE GIVE ME upvotes @ cryptoctopus
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@pathan ·
beautiful post my dear @ cryptoctopus
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@phedizzle ·
In America, that money would not go as far as in other countries. Some of us have no income so even though we couldn't afford more than maybe a meal once a week, it's still a big contribution. Our inflation has been suffocating. Just a gallon of milk can be $4-6.
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@phgnomo ·
That would be around R$300,00 a week, R$ 1200,00. In 5 months R$ 6000,00...

I gotta say, that would be a pretty good money to get ready for the expenses that will arrive with a newborn in 5 months.

Its been though days, since i got unemployed. Bad market for construction and no one hiring.

Luckly for me,i have a beloved wife, that can provide for both of us on these bad times, and she is the one that lift my spirit to keep on fighting that something good will happen.

And i think she is right. I have a good feeling for next year, and maybe my one-man contruction company lift off.

In these bad days, i also realized that i have no right to complaim about money. I do have a good life with enough comfort.

Middle of the year, we joined a group of friends that once a month go around the town at night giving away food, water and blankets to those who live on the streets.

No institutions, no big donations, only a group of friends taking a bit from what we had to give some hope to those who have nothing.

With that money, my first priority would definetly be to save it for my future child. 25 dollars a week invested in a pretty low risk saving accounts can generate an huge amount of money supporting him in doing whatever he/she reach 18-21 years old.

The other half i would direct to that group of friends, so we could keep on giving some small hope to those in need.
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@prince-opk ·
I am a Ghanaian and in Ghana $1 is worth Ghcedis 4.5 and getting $50 a week would really transform my life and that of my family. My parents earn less than $10 a week and even though is just an upvote for you but for me n my family it would be a life changing opportunity because that would be able to take care of our feeding, rent, my siblings fees and certain personal stuffs. This would really turn things around for my family and my self.
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@prince-opk ·
I am a Ghanaian and in Ghana $1 is worth Ghana cedis 4.5. And getting $50 a week would be a life changing event in my life. Am in a family of 6 and my dad is the one who takes care of us and his weekly pay is less than $15. My mom has no job. And getting $50 a week will greatly affect my family positively because that would help provide at least one square meals for us a week and also help to pay our rent and also help pay my siblings school fees. Even though is just an upvote to you but for me is more like a life changing event.. Thank you for your help God bless your effort.
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@rabeel ·
$0.13
I am a father of 4 kids, My main problem is better study of my kids. bcoz there in pakistan study is very costly. in govt schools teachers take no interest but they have intrest only on their salary. and in private schools study level is better but their feeses are out of range a common man like me. 50$ per week is handsome value for expenditure of 1 kid in pvt school. and my tention about the study of my kids  removed  if i got 50$ per week.
Thanks @cryptoctopus.
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@rakib143073433 ·
very good post , i upvote you, please upvote me
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@ravenruis ·
Wow, it is a real eye-opener to read perspectives from such a variety of countries, where the same amount of money could mean such different lives for some, but be just a drop in the bucket for others. I had no idea there was this much economic disparity in the world.

Here in NZ, USD50 currently equates to about NZ70, and for those on a low income it would make a bigger difference, naturally, to those in the upper or even middle income brackets. Personally, unless I had some urgent bill to pay I would rather take than money and reinvest it in Steem so it could continue to work for me and help towards any large goal that I have set for myself and my family. Having the funds work over and over instead of disappearing into a single purchase, such as a restaurant dinner, makes much more financial sense to me after having been budget-conscious for a long time; and this is something I try to instill into my children so they become financially wiser than I ever was. :)
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@resteemia ·
$3.04
i'm an university student in the real life. got a lot of works to do, so having a limited time to present in social medias. i need to pay 820 usd for a semester fee. so, with 50 usd weekly, every month i can collect 200 usd & in the 5th month, it can collect my next semester fee. therefore, i won't ask money from my parents to pay semester fee again. i'm happy about it **@cryptoctopus**

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@rharphelle · (edited)
$0.05
$10 here would do quite a lot. 
As a student in my final year, $10 would cater for my upkeep for about a week or two. It could also cater for some educational needs like; photocopy of materials, printing of online notes, and settling of some compulsory academic dues. 
Finally, $10 would buy me a new multimeter which is a major equipment needed for my final year project and some other extra equipment.  
Here in Nigeria, $10 means quite a lot for the common student.
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@rival ·
This is really nice.. I will not compete.. Yes it's also for me a nice weekly extra but for some people this can be more then 3 months of hard work they need to do.. I have read stories of countries in south america were people have $2 a day for work..

So I hope these people will react.. that they can validate their contribution and that YOU can change lives..
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@ruth-girl ·
In Greece of the economic crisis, where people get about 500 euros/month (600$) to work 48 hours/week an extra 50$ (40euros) could make a difference. They could pay for your super market, or your child's language school (cause we have to pay private schools for that), or your car loan, or half your rent. Our survival does not depend on those extra 160 euros/month, but this money are surely welcome and lots of people would count on it.

Wish you a happy holiday time! Belated Merry Christmas! :P
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@rxhector ·
That would make a HUGE difference - I just tweaked my back for the 3rd time this year - Now I get time off with no pay - it's gonna hurt most in the pocket book :(
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@salmanbukhari54 · (edited)
$0.08
@cryptoctopus Sir!

According to Today's  assignment $50 makes following things in my life

1- It will make me financially Strong
2- It will make me happy both sociologically and economically
3- i will manage to pay my Fee to doctor for my check up 
4- I will do some charity to needy people around me ( i know a boy whose father is dead) 
5- i will try to spend some money to make my Street Clean
6- I will definitely go for a one day trip out of my city

As for as the difference in life is concerned Money makes your life easy in many ways. It gives you mental peace and makes you more composed towards life.
I am a sociologist and I have noticed money brings smile on the faces of poor.  Money has nothing to do with Creed Caste or Color. In this age Money is creating happiness everywhere. Same goes with me 

Although i am new comer here and it is my #First ever comment on your post. Hope so you will continue such posts in future for the learning of new comers like me 

I hope to somehow i fulfilled the given assignment @cryptoctopus Sir!

Resteemed!
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@ainie.kashif · (edited)
Hi @salmanbukhari54, that's a very noble list you have there. My upvote for you and all the best for this challenge! I read about your sickness, take care 😊
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@samiwhyte · (edited)
$2.00
Hello @cryptoctopus

I'm from Nigeria, Port Harcourt city to be precise, here in the University of Port Harcourt, part tuition fee for a session is about 50USD. 

With 50USD, an undergraduate in Nigeria can be sent back to school with part tuition fee paid, this can send one back to class room.

If I receive 50USD in 5days, I will invest the money on promotions, I will get others on board, so they can blog and develop themselves while earning too to improve their standard of living.
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@santy · (edited)
I don't know about others but it will make a huge diffrence in my life. My father is retaired for years. I am his only child. Bow he can not provide me everything i want.  and now the time has come to me to do something of my own. I joined steem 3 month back. then the usd was not this much high againts sbd but now it is. then i didn't take it sceriously. but now i am taking it sceriously and the money i am geting from you guys by commenting and creating conten is not that much but i can mange it for myselfe. I am thinking of taking steem as my carier.  cause the USD is much high againts hour currency. with USD  10 I can buye myslef a shrit can have lunche with four people and also can take some money to home. so it is huge. right now i have not in the situation to contribute to the enviorment. but if i can stable my income I will try my level best to wrok against water polution. cause i belive most of the diseases are comes from water. so that was me and my plan. thanks for give us the opertunity to earn some money through comenting in your post. god bless you and your familly.
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@sanuk ·
Good day, i am from the Philippines. $10 is around 500 Php, where in this is how much our minimum wage earner is paid a day of work. Enough to feed a family of 5 for the whole day.

<b>What difference does it make in my life?</b>
This amount can get me a vacay for 2 in a beqch for 3 days and 2 nights.
This could help me get more SP to upvote other people's posts.
But steemit has been good to me this year so if i would be the one chosen, i will share this to those in need here in our country, which brings me to this next question

<b>What would you do with that money to make your life and environment better?</b>
I always want to give to charity or spend my birthday helping others like feeding some homeless, street children or organizing a feeding program to sick kids or people with disabilities. That is always a part of my bucket list. This amount could get a long way. I could also donate the amount to typhoon Urduja <i>(international name Kai-Tak)</i> victims. Or i can work with my fellow steemians and we can organize an event to help those in need.

This is great initiative and i salute you sharing your blessings to other people. More power to you and your blog and hope you can help more people!
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@sco · (edited)
$0.08
For me, it honestly wouldn't make that much of a difference, as I live in Austria where the overall financial Situation is comparable to Canada.
But whaly upvotes help me in expanding my SP-based influence here ob steemit, so it's a nice to have.
Ah, and yea: nice articles <3 😜
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@senseicat · (edited)
$1.87
Can you imagine the difference that it would make in New Delhi, India..the most polluted city on earth.  Imagine the lifetime health ramifications for the residents of India’s capital known as a “gas chamber.”
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@sergiomendes ·
That sounds quiet a lot of money. Specially if we think the way and the values on the market latelly. But well You have been doing great things for the community. That is just something else amazing you also doing for content creators out here.
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@serkagan ·
$2.07
It is very pleasant to read your post, my friend and to realize that there are people for whom someone else's life and destiny is interesting simply from human motives. You are absolutely right, there are countries and people for whom 10 dollars decide a lot and where wish the family can survive all day long, or even more. For me, to be honest, this money will not be critical, but for today too much is too much there will not be and my family will live some more dignified time some time. Thank you @cryptoctopus  and God bless you for your kindness!
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@shai-hulud ·
# What difference would it make in my life?

Honestly like yourself I'm lucky and privileged to live in relative comfort and security.

As such feel free to skip me for the upvote but kudos on finding a way to reward those with greater need.

I think about the impact steem could have within some of these communities often.
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@sharminkona ·
thanks for clear of steem..thank you very much my friend..carry on your creativity..best of luck...
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@cryptoctopus ·
$0.10
your comments make no sense.
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@sharminkona ·
$0.02
friend i new one in steemit..my native language not english..please help from  this issue..
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@sharminkona ·
my friend i little bit idea of steemit..evan my native language not english..and this post don,t understand this situation..i hope next time keep to concious always ..please withdraw your flag...
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@thelightreports ·
They make perfect sense to him- he writes them to upvote his own comment- lol
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@shawnvanderveer ·
$2.86
@cryptoctopus You sir, you are one of the most kind people I know on the internet. And I mean it by that. It is brilliant to give some people upvotes which makes a difference in their life while it only costs us voting power. Hence, help people!
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@shencoin · (edited)
$1.75
its right and i think in usa and canda or some in big countries the 10usd maybe not having so many value but the mostly coutries in world this 10usd having a big vaule many from asia and africa   and my parents home town in  pakistan i live in terxas with my husbnd but now i m in  pakistan with my parents,,, and in  pakistan the 10$ are having a big value bcz some of people in labour only get the sellary of whole month 100usd and they having many difficulties to spent this som small sellry in whole month i only save my money from steemit for my daughter and  my parents bcz my parents family is middle class and thier are many people who are very poor and  i only spent my internet  money some saving of my daughter and othrt my parents help...when i sent them money they spent it  thierselves and some help others poor pesons who having dont any source of income....i think some riches comunities go to poor countries and make charities and not make  only in  canda or usa or in these rich countries @cryptoctopus
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@sistem · (edited)
$0.05
Well it would seem like nothing to you sir but to me in Nigeria it means a whole lot.  With $50 I would be able to buy a whole lot of text  oops needed for my academic session.

 I am not from a wealthy family and so try as much as possible to find for myself in anyway I can and steemit has been a saving grace for me and I think knowing you has made it even better. With $50 I can also feed properly over here and get all the basic items I need and even have spare to send to my younger brother who is also in school like me.  

I could also send some to my parents because I know they don't have much and being the first son in NY family,  at this point it is my responsibility to actually cater for then having trained me up till this very point in my life. 

I must say that $50 is a whole lot of money to me and it would change my life in a way you won't be able to envisage.
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@slayer10 ·
I'll be with my boyfriend at Christmas .. We're both college students. We rented a hotel in a nearby sea city and we gave all of our allowance there. we can get a nice red wine with an extraordinary income and Christmas can be more beautiful for us ..
I hope you see my comment

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@slider2990 ·
$0.09
A $10 upvote does not change life financially for California residents.  However I would power up more steam to continue compound growth for the future.  Keep up the great work.  Together we will change the world!
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@smartgeek · (edited)
Dear @cryptoctopus, Thank you very much for supporting this community and helping us with your upvotes. This money makes a huge difference in my life. I am from India and here the value of $1 is equal to 65 INR, ie. Indian Rupees. The value of $50 a week will be 3250 INR. which is a huge amount for a middle-class family. if we calculate it monthly then it will be more than 70% of my monthly salary. This amount may help me paying my rentals and supporting my family. It will also help me achieve my goals in life. 
Thank you very much for your kind support. May God bless you with everything in your life.
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@sstira ·
$0.07
This is really kind of you the 50$ in my country is like 500dirham which is for some people is week payment, i am student right now but in germany that 50 will be like a week of food , i don‘t care if you uptove this i just want to say thank you for you
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@stealthtrader · (edited)
In the past I have made many **helpful** posts since July 2016 when I joined Steemit, and even thought I like to make people laugh I also love to help.. If you google search "Steemit Profile Picture" you will find my tutorial as the first result (which I still get comments thanking me for everyday over a year later)..
![Screen Shot 2017-12-26 at 5.37.29 PM.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmUPQiYcAjYvmeNxZBNap61sdnTMzdaW1uQvgwo9D9YodU/Screen%20Shot%202017-12-26%20at%205.37.29%20PM.png)

Not to mention _many_ other helpful tutorials like How to withdraw STEEM from Bittrex or How to add Soundcloud links in your pages.. So I would continue to add valuable posts that continue to help people months and years after I post them ;D
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@steemwija ·
$3.02
@cryptoctopus - Sir to answer your question I wish to use an photography that I used few days back with your Xmas contest...
https://steemitimages.com/0x0/https://steemitimages.com/DQmUdbNmx783FMdFvRDsiud4dTpgkXmTDTmS2tmYpnoAVzk/me%26son.jpg

In 2020 this Cute Button will go to school... To get him to a good school & give him education to be a good person is my only hope... So, all upvotes I'm getting as the reward is collecting to build his future... 
Thanks to you I have a hope now, Thanks to Steemit I have a income to build that dream... Therefore, with your simple 2% upvote my dream is building day by day... Thank you very much Sir... God bless you & your family & your future hopes too...

+W+
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@stranniksenya ·
It really good idea to help people in such way, sometimes I do the same, but in another platform, and I understand the fillings when you do such things, best wishes! P.S. I spend my erned money on steemit to have a trip to the Red Sea with my daughter several weeks ago)
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@sushie ·
So, I live in Nigeria.  A place where the season for love and good cheer is in actuality a season for worry and suffering.  The minimum wage is about 6 USD. Around the end of the year, prices for various commodities get hiked, including cost of transportation!! 
Now this has a lot of implications.  People who earn minimum wage cannot cater for their families (their salaries aren't even enough to buy food!!), they cannot even move from place to place in order to see their loved ones because of the very ridiculous hike in the cost of transportation and they can't even feel the Christmas spirit. 
As a result of this, Christmas in Nigeria is a season of anxiety and worry for lower class families. 
I hope that one day,the country gets fixed and everyone can look forward to the end of the year without feeling apprehensive.  It just breaks my heart. 


And keep up the good work you do. 
You actually make a lot of people smile and that's what Christmas is about; sharing love and giving.
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@taskmaster4450 · (edited)
$1.67
You hit upon a point I keep making @cryptoctopus.  

We simply do not know what condition someone else is in when we upvote them.  Personally, I upvote every comment made on my article even those that appear to be nothing more without much effort.  Some of them are in extremely poor English and when I look at where they are from, it is from some poorer nation many times.  

While not going to the length that you are in terms of each comment, I do give many 30 and 50 cent comments out during the days.  Some people are getting 3 or4 of these from me a day which amounts to a fair amount of SBD when it is paid.  Like you said, in many countries, $5 or $6 makes a big difference.

As for the answer to your question:  

**It isnt the difference it would make in my life that is important.  In fact, since I joined I have not taken one cent that I earned.  Everything that comes in is used to power up.**

**So the difference it would make is in the lives of all the people I upvote.  They are the ones who matter.  More SP for me equates to more Voting Power which is a higher upvote total for them.**

As for the impact in their lives, we can only imagine who we are helping.

Thank you for sharing this eye-opener for all to see.  This is the essence of what the steem blockchain is all about.
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@wdougwatson ·
$0.08
This is why I count you and @cryptoctopus among the best people I have met here on Steemit.
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@taskmaster4450 ·
Wow...thank you @wdougwatson...

That is a hell of a compliment....I have a ton of respect for what @cryptoctopus is doing on here.
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@teachblogger · (edited)
To be honest, it doesn't make any huge changes on my daily life. However, I couldn't travel for a long time as I had to work. Thanks to steemit and your contribution, I am going to travel soon with the money that I am getting from steemit, so when you upvote my comment or posts, it will directly affect my holiday at the end of january. Your upvote might help me to get a beer in Belgrade / Serbia :)
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@thabiggdogg · (edited)
Any amount of money is a lot to me. I haven't had a job since 2006. People ask me how I survive. I said I have. Not having a car anymore, don't have to pay for gas. I do things online to try to earn some money. I used to spend money not to wisely when I was younger. Now that I'm older, I think hard before I buy things. I think about what kind of overall value it will give me.

I'm trying to save up right now to buy a decent graphics card to Bitcoin Mine with. I've been CPU mining since 2013. A new graphics card would make a world of difference on the crypto income.
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@theabsolute ·
For me, it is providing me an opportunity to have a form of investment that I think could really take off. I don't have much in the way of savings, but I get by okay for the most part. It definitely means a lot and I think it could be a huge difference in the future.
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@theexplorer · (edited)
This year has been tough, Iive in Bangkok and am the sole provider for a family of 3. I changed jobs so my son could get a better education, he goes to the school I teach at. So he has a better education, but I earn less, so I couldn't really afford any Christmas presents this year. I have been working on my blogs, so maybe next year I will break through! Most importantly I have my family and friends and they are priceless.
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@theexplorer ·
This year has been tough, Iive in Bangkok and am the sole provider for a family of 3. I changed jobs so my son could get a better education, he goes to the school I teach at. So he has a better education, but I earn less, so I couldn't really afford any Christmas presents this year. I have been working on my blogs, so maybe next year I will break through! Most importantly I have my family and friends and they are priceless. I would like to treat my friends and family once in a while, so that is what I would do.
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@thegoddess ·
Hey, am relatively new here. Like a baby in fact lol. I'm from India and imagine $50 converted in INR that's Indian currency. That would sum upto almost 3500 rupees and this is 35% of my house's rent and 50% of our one month's groceries. And yeah, talk about lady stuff, I can finally buy a high end foundation for myself lol. Not that I'd go for it coz lets get it real man, if I ever could buy one, I'd not need to be blogging or work from home for some earning what do you say? well the amount suggested is apparently decent in my currency. Now, don't you flag sweetie, lets be friends ;)
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@theguruasia ·
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@cryptoctopus,
Sorry for the delay, it's 7:53 am here and came to the work place and just found this post!
Before answering this post, I would like to tell you 1 USD = 154 LKR (Sri Lankan Rupees)

**What difference does it make in your life?**
Your upvote gives me 50 USD per week, it equals to 154 * 50 * 4 =  30800 LKR.
It's absolutely 50% my monthly wages. 

**What would you do with that money to make your life and your environment better?**
I could pay my house rental and all bills with this money! And my parents Medical bills can be pay off too! 

So, this is a huge opportunity and thank you for understanding the value of your 3% upvote and how it could be help to make others lives a better heaven! God bless you dear friend!

Cheers~
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@tosyne2much ·
If you upvote my post daily, I will be filled with joy because its definitely going to make a lot of impact in my life. I will able to feed well and pay for my text books in school. 

The conversion of $50 weekly to my currency (Naira) is a whole lot of money and it will also enable me transport myself to school daily and settle other expenses.

You are one of the few steemian I have so much regard for and it will be a dream come true if I have you upvote my post daily @ cryptoctopus
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@travelinggreek ·
Sometimes we forget how privileged we are and how much of a difference we can make with small gestures. In 2017 I gave back a little to a country that's given me a lot. 2018 will be more of that but also to the people who are full of heart and pride and never give up. Happy New Year and Thank You for this... :)
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@tronthetechie ·
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For once I'm not working when you make a post, Yay!

Admittedly $50 USD a week isn't much where I am, but I'm working on setting everything I can aside for a move. Right now I'm living in a studio apartment in a 200 year old house, that the landlord insists we should be paying around $600 USD a month to live in, with massive holes in the walls, a closet of a bathroom with no vent fan, and the bats that crawl through the walls into the hall and living-room don't pay their fair share of rent!

On the light end of that goal I'm hoping to get into a nicer place that isn't such a potential hazard, but if I can make the impossible happen, and move down south to where my family is, that is certainly the goal I WANT to aquire.

If I ever really make it on steemit, you have set a wonderful bar for what should be the norm among those of the community, and I hope to be able to be as much of an actor in peoples lives as you have managed to be.

Either way, Happy New Year, @cryptoctopus!
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@tudors ·
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First of all, the major difference will be that I have money. 
I'm Nigerian, a student and have no other source of livelihood apart from my parents.  I don't own a car, extra 10$ a day will help facilitate my movement, subscribe my data plan and feed me. 
Basically it'd make me feel independent for like 2 weeks. 

Plus I have political ambitions at school, a whole 50$ will go a long way in my campaign.
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@turpsy ·
>What difference does it make in your life? 

I would use it to pay for my Uber to my laboratory. That costs around 200 mxn pesos. Public buses are not too good option, because I literally spend 1.30hr before getting to the lab. I cant live close to the laboratory  because my main research center is also far. So i have to choose between two distance.
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@tzap90 ·
Currently I am using steemmit as a kind of social platform and some source of news about all kind of crypto news.
Living in Europe so just cant image that people in less developed countries will profit much more. 
In fact crypto can gave them a chance to a eco system where they can access it at any time at any place without the need to have a social number, insurance or credit status.
I am currently stacking my small portions and will decide in 2,3 years what I will do with them
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@valth ·
I am so lucky that I'm from Norway, and as some of you probably knows, this is one of the most expensive countries in the world. $50 would just barely be enough for one person to go out and eat at a restaurant, so it actually does not make that big different from a person like me who if fortunate enough to live in Norway. Despite this I really enjoy getting upvotes, and I am saving up everything I can in Steem Power. I do believe that it will rise a lot higher in the coming years, so my current plant is to power down a bit when I'm going to be buying my first house for my family. That is probably a few years away still, and by that time I bet the $50 is worth a lot more, so it will eventually make a huge difference for me as well :) 

You can't really compare this to all of the other comments about people who could make a monthly wage from commenting on your posts, but this is how it's like for me. I think you are doing such a nice thing by helping out so many members from all around the globe, @cryptoctopus! I'm sure lots of families have a better life because of your upvotes here on Steemit.
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@vangelov ·
Brother, I live in Bulgaria, the normal wage is 220$ per month. Most people here struggle with financial issues, that's one of the reasons I'm placing my hopes and creative energy into steemit. This platform gives me hope in self development and making some money. 

From that monthly you detract. 
-40$ Electricity 
-20$ Water
-10$ Internet 
- 100$ Rent (If living alone).
Rest goes for food.

Food price is the same as UK/US but in BGN. 

> There is a saying here " Do you know where Bear Grillz can't survive?" "In Bulgaria with a Minimal Wage". Haha :D 

Being in UK showed me that people are living a dream, buying food in bulk, having a lot of different meals per day, that's something you don't get in the homeland.

Also knowing that my Government has 3 billion in crypto that it Seized from people makes me pissed, they closed down all the bank accounts of people that owned exchanges and took their money. 

Our Governemnt is Trying to kill us, its trying to make us slaves. I'm discussed of how people suffer and they don't even realize it. It makes me want to burn government Buildings, yet I cant indulge in that due to my Loving Spiritual nature. 

I don't care much for the up votes, there are others that have a bigger need for them, I know I can do good here on this platform, not because I'm greedy, but because I see hope for people, hope for myself. 

I didn't write this comment to give you a reason to upvote me, I wrote it so you know that some people are slaves and suffering, so this is to thank you for being generous and giving. Believe me, your upvote can make the difference for someone. 
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@vasilisapor2 ·
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@verdanas · (edited)
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In my country 10$ is worth a lot.  With 50$ a week you can support more famillies with that money. Because people here doesn't have much money and things are cheaper. But the best part is if you hold that steem or sbd it will be much more worth in my opinion. In that case this 50$ could potentialy feed villages and help 3rd world countries to stand on their feet. We would not need karitas or unicef anymore. Steem could help a lot. A few steem or sbd and instant transaction to local people. It could be used for teaching local people how to make sufficient way of living so they don't need to ask developed countries for help anymore.
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@vickyrich ·
hello @cryptoctopus,
You upvoting on each of my comment five times a week at the value of $10usd for a total of $50usd a week...$50 worth of sbd 
currently is around 162,000 thousand naira..in nigeria currency...
 To be frank,i will use dart to do alot of things...buh i focus nd answer..based on the question you throwed:
 **What difference does it make in your life?**
Well,there will be a lot of difference in every area of my life...because i will use it to do alot of things...wghich can also be beneficial to me and everyone around me...

**What would you do with that money to make your life and your environment better?**
 There are alot of things i will that kind of money to do but i will list the ones that are vital and essential:
  Firstly,i will use part of as donation to the government in my hometown,so that they can construct and make good roads for us...because the roads are bad and whearas accident occurs...i will also prmote steemit to the community .
  Secondly,i will use it to further my simblings education..Before i further my schooling,because theirs is important
  Thirdly,i will invest it on cryptocurrency...so that when i earn more from it i will use it to do other things that are vital...
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@vidafitnessfeliz · (edited)
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Good afternoon @cryptoctopus Tell you  that here in Peru the cost of living monthly I earn as an employee is $234.37 monthly that is equivalent to earn per day $7.81, so to eat daily spending 3 dollars as we are 4 my mother, 3 Hermaosa and niece. More transports $2.00, apart water, rent of the house, gas, actually at the end of the month I have to do overtime to get more than minimum bracket for me to reach money. With $10.00 to the steemit I could pay the workshop of my niece who wants to study karate now that this on vacation, give my mom his medication that this bad of the bones would alleviate me much the $50 dollars in 5 days, would have a breath of freedom and tranquil Owned
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@wdougwatson · (edited)
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I am not from a third world country. I am better off than many in my own community here in the U.S. However, I certainly am not rich. I live paycheck to paycheck, and sometimes the paychecks don't quite meet in the middle. Obviously, these extra dollars can make a big difference in my life. And it will, but first I have some plans.

Since I am better off than so many, I plan on taking as little from my account as possible until I have enough to carry out my agenda. My aim is to reinvest as much as possible in order to start a few different groups. At this point I will be able to take more from Steemit to supplement my own income. 
## What groups you ask?
One group will exist to give exposure to Libertarian and Anarchist writers, an anarchist circle jerk if you will. The second group will exist to give support to worthwhile projects here on Steem, such as @airhawk-project, @utopian-io, @minnowsupport, and others. Lastly, (for now) is a project that is perhaps more pertinent to your post today. I'll create a curation group dedicated to giving aid to needy persons. The group will upvote both posts and comments and hopefully make a difference in the lives of many.

In conclusion, Steem will make a mighty difference in my life and hopefully, many others.
Thanks for all that you do.

Keep Steeming!
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@yairdd ·
It can make the difference if you take these 50$ and invest them on SP, and then keep collecting your upvotes and investing them on SP, then, it can make a lot of money at the end.

Not only that,
There are a lot of people on Steemit that they don't have enough money to finish the month, and I'm 100% sure about that. so I know it will help them.  If I'll see anyone like that, I'll let you know.

You can upvote threads that the whole liquid revenue goes to charity. 

For me in particular, It won't change my life, but it will give me more money to Invest in Cryptocurrency. which will maybe change my life, I don't know, it might.

You have a lot of power in your hands, do as best as you can with it.

Oh, and btw, how's my English? sorry for the random question. It's not my native language. 

Wish you the best!
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@zakir.quetta ·
I have already followed and going to resteem your post as well. I can't believe you could be so generous to upvote people with high value SBD worth 10$. Just awesome. Thanks alot.
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