My main concerns and fears.

Having worked out the best way to get fiat into here, here are my concerns. I bet this post does not get over $100 now.

I have a private pension, and almost lost it last week, I will get it all back in 12 weeks though via court action, or more likely a settlement out of court, if both fail the government in the UK have to compensate, as I went through independent so called financial advisors

It is a protected pension, meaning I can draw it anytime I want after 50, also I am 51 now & 52 next month, so I am going to take half as a lump sum in 12 weeks, and invest the other half in another private pension, for my wife and daughters future.

I will be walking away with roughly 2.5 million £. And reinvesting the same into another pension.
I have everything I want in life, I need no more cars, I may buy more bikes though, as I like to restore them.

When I very first came onto steemit, I was going to invest heavily, though after joining I noticed the fight going on regards the crypto man and others, and as it was $12 sbd I thought I would wait to see what happened on both fronts.

Now I am 6 months in on steemit, and to be fair, no more sure than I was before that it is a good idea, allow me to tell you why. My thoughts, as it is my money and my investment anyway, not yours.

The network game!

To me this looks like more of a censorship game, disagree with me once and I cut off your funding (votes) is what I have seen, way to many people tip toe around here like they are walking on broken glass, bollox to that, say it the way you see it and say what you want.

I was raised, admittedly a long time ago, "with sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me" I am not from the offended culture, and to be honest the culture offends me, but you know, I will get over it and survive.

Another thing that drives me nuts is the bots thing, all the people without the power to get rid of them, telling everyone else not to use them, even when it might benefit the people using them, that is like saying go over there and self harm, as I am telling you to.

The way I view steemit now, is I have to build up my own stake, because nobody else is going to do it for me right? and that is the way it should be, so no matter what I have to do, to do that, I should do that, not only me, so should YOU. I have looked back on loads of peoples accounts on here on steemd, and most of them did the same, they self voted on posts, they grew their own stake by doing it.

So if I put 1 million $ in here or 2, and make max 4 posts a day, and upvote them 4 posts 100% then give 600% in upvotes through out the day to other authors and commentators, I would consider that fair play, would you? I doubt very much I would or will do 4 posts a day, that is a rarity, not an average you see, 2 would be more likely, leaving 8 x 100% for others and 2x 100% for me.

In no way is this me asking anyone's permission to do what I want with my pension, as it is mine to play with.

This is in part a response to a post here https://steemit.com/discussion/@whatsup/we-are-investors-not-customers-act-like-you-own-it-because-you-do.

Here are a few thoughts I will lay down right here right now on the block, my block, our block.

For me to invest on here in a big way, would take a shift in attitudes, one that stops demonizing bidbot users via posts, via opinions and via pushing this bias onto users, whilst not taking on the bidbot owners, it is like getting angry with a drug user, and not his dealer.

For anyone not liking or wanting bots, no matter who they are, take it up with the correct people that can change the code via a hard fork, stinc and witnesses?

Stop telling people how to run their accounts would be number 2, there would be no reason for anyone having multiple accounts if people could truly do what they want with no criticism. It also pertains to my earlier point about people walking on broken glass.

My best friend in life and me, have never seen eye to eye, we have never agreed on a single bloody thing, and it is healthy, he balances me, and I balance him, we find a middle ground, even if we never say it. WE DO. I can sit and have beers with him for 10 hours, arguing the toss about life, about anything, and walk away with a smile, it is called being flexible, and in a world full of rules, getting more rigid by the day, the world needs more of that.