I guess I've been around the block a few times. I guess I've been on this particular blockchain for a few years now. Some of the same people are here and some of them have changed.
Some of the same attitudes prevail while others are attempting to do something different. Can the site actually do something different? It's a tough thing to say because you will definitely find people that say we are all going to be rich.
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You will find people that say anyone with 5000 steem will be sitting on a fortune. 5000 too much you ask? You will find people that say anyone with one thousand steem is also sitting on a fortune. 1000 too much you ask? I've seen people say that even 50 steem would be enough to make you rich in the future.
In the future.
Once our platform takes off.
Once our platform takes off.
The problem is that we've given this platform a lot of time. What's essentially happened is that the main company laid off a bunch of employees now we've got some other people doing their best but of course they're looking out for their own interests. It only makes sense that they would be because the top 20 witnesses are making something like $35,000 a year even in this bear market, and I think that's probably gone up recently at least a little bit.
If we go up to an another $10 steem they're going to be making an absolute fortune. That's what they're hoping for. And that's good that they're hoping that. However, the rest of us are probably making something like $20 a month posting here even if we are the kind of people that have a big following. The kind of people that used to make $40 a day or something like that I mean.
So now we're kind of waiting for the platform to take off. EOS has got their platform coming out in a little while. Everyone here is talking about how it isn't going to matter at all. It isn't going to be anything to get excited about especially when steem is already here.
I did pull some steem out at $0.44.
Currently it's $0.39.
I don't know what that means. I don't know if the answer is to pull some out or if the answer is to stick it out. I predicted when it was $0.88 that it was going to fall down to below $0.50 and that happened. Now I'm thinking it's going to fall lower again. I don't know what could possibly happen but I think this probability that a blogging platform like ours is going to give a lot of people the opportunity to say what's on their mind isn't always what everyone wants to hear.
Especially when these people have gotten huge simply by being lucky. I know. I know. A lot of hard work went into it right? Well all of us have put in a lot of hard work, even the people that weren't getting paid at all. Those that don't make any money. The Dolphins that make a little bit. Everyone does their best and everyone has a strong effort to give.
So we're all kind of sitting under a tree right? Looking up into the sky? There's not a bright sun or even a bright moon to reflect the rays from that sun. There's not a star shining down on us or even a sparkly UFO flying by. No. What there is.....is a dark circle. Is it a dark circle of despair? Is it a dark circle of frustration? I don't know what it is but I think it's different for everyone. I could tell you it's not a hopeful circle. You can tell you it's not a happy circle.
I am still doing my best here and I am still doing my best to be a good steemian. I can't say I really fancy the way the community is going. Still, if have you been one of my followers throughout this whole time I say thank you. I hope you look forward to the new book that 
