incentivized to invest in... what?

With the blog/video/shortform tweet/games/etc there is something to invest in.

Without them, its a nice database tool for, whatever it is that investors pay money to database things in, but those solutions are a dime a dozen and probably all just in the shadow of bitcoin to the REAL big money anyway.

We're different because we aren't just another database or shitcoin with no value proposition.

The community IS the value proposition here, allegedly, per the white papers of both steem and hive and all the thought leaders who led them both to the spotlight in the first place.

Whats all that mean, well, like I said in my other reply. I'm still trying to find the way to articulate the problem, then the solution should pretty much present itself.