Yeah, you totally should have a "Yearly Author" badge, even if you're the only person in the community who gets it! Congrats on making another year.

Personally speaking, I'm so over the whole "you'll own nothing" paradigm; I plan to own my stake, and with it some minimal (at least) measure of freedom. I'm very grateful for Hive and for the financial end in such times as we need a "holy crap fund" as the last backstop when unfortunate finances strike. Here in the US of A, they mostly arrive in the form of extreme medical bills and property taxes. We already bought part of our freedom by owning our house outright (no loans) but the taxes are ridiculous... mostly because the property values are ridiculous.

Oh well... we move forward, because we can't go back.

Here's to another great year!