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For some reason, I can't get an image to upload to Peakd, hive.blog or LeoFinance - so let's see if this post has an image at all - seems the image hosting is down. *Oh well* - I can add one later.


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I kind of think it is funny on Hive, as while at least for those who have been around for a while, all of these little inconveniences are just part and parcel of the game, where things go wrong, code breaks and expectations are disrupted. Facebook or Google goes down for a couple minutes, and people act like it is the end of the world. 

>Perhaps it is.

Speaking of the end of the world, it is nice to see HIVE over 1 dollar for long enough that even the blockchain has recognized it as over. Who knows how long it will last for, but I like seeing my account value climb a little sometimes, rather than decline a little often. I have also decided to pull some of my HIVE out of savings (it clears in an hour or two) and power some of it back up. This should give me another 20% in curation, which is about 6 dollars a day. That doesn't sound like much for a western-world income, but it translates to 180 dollars a month.

I need to visualize things in order to make sense of them, so 180 dollars is about a shopping trip that will cover us for almost a week. This means that despite inflation, groceries are 33% cheaper! Well, that is a technical "cheaper" as I don't use my earnings in crypto yet. While that seems pretty decent, technically, I could sell all of my stake at the current value and pay for the groceries for the next 20 years or so, but is that really a worthy outcome?

Hard to say and who knows, a year from now when everything crypto is dead and gone, I can lament the decision whilst I listen to my growling belly. You know, if that happens, at least this post will serve as an immutable reminder, even if I'd rather forget. 

>I don't expect crypto to be dead next year.

I don't really expect much, but I do *hope* that things are going to climb steadily upward and start to connect value to *compelling usecase,* as that will bring more people into the scene. Yes, this is good for crypto early adopters, but it is a win-win-win scenario, as it is good for people joining and it will spillover into the traditional economy and even if not in crypto, people will benefit. Well, *normal people.* Those who are heavily invested in governments and centralized organizations that require top heavy incomes and a captured audience to survive, might struggle. 

I sometimes wonder what the world would look like if instead of what we have chosen to do, we were able to collaborate and coordinate to truly make the world a better place at scale. In a hypothetical world without human vice and desire, if we were all acting in the best interest of everyone else to raise all ships, what would be possible? I mean, we are pretty competent developers as a species already, but what does it look like without the competition, greed and pettiness?

>Impossible? 

Yes, *most likey.*

However, I do think that through decentralized ownership and governance, we can start to better align our processes and increase our chances of success. Centralized control always fails to do better, because it will always favor itself over the outliers, centralizing resources more and more and increasing what constitutes an outlier. It is because of this, that the wealth gap between rich and poor is not only getting larger, but also that the number of poor is increasing growing, while the wealthy streak ahead. 

It is much like pushing a large volume of water through a narrow hole quickly, where it creates a jet stream, except it is a large volume of wealth from the masses, being concentrated through an inverted funnel, with the energy pushing the value to the top. Not much trickles back down, because that wealth is converted into static assets that needn't change hands too often and are always desirable, like land and strong business models. It creates a market scarcity that pushes more out of the market, but the overall wealth volume moving can increase.

This is because while the "normal people" are spending their meagre amounts on survival, through this process, the wealthy are able to generate increasing amounts of value and spend it on luxury. The economy can look fantastic, because so much is being spent, but it is being spent by the few, not the masses. They are spending of course, but not on luxury houses, on unbranded bread and milk instead.

Some will say that this isn't fair, but it isn't about fairness, it is about the way the economy works. People don't like the "code is law" saying on Hive, but the fact is, the current traditional economy is running on a complex set of codes and conditions also, which has led us to a highly uneven financial system. The only way to change the direction and outcomes, is by changing the code and, that is what crypto is doing. 

Consumer behavior is rapidly changing and what needs to happen is people need to start taking control of their own financial power, rather than continuing to hand it over, just to survive. Obviously, this is a catch-22 situation as we still need to survive, which means we might not have much left to change the code - but the only thing that is going to happen from not doing anything is,

> Delaying the inevitable.

We need to build a better inevitable.

Taraz
[ Gen1: Hive ]

I put a picture link.. it is broken. Let's see in the morning. 

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