Patience, resilience, financial literacy and value being part of a community - these are some of the things people mentioned when answering what important things have they learned from Hive. I think the last one is vital for our future, not just on Hive, but as society in general.
Community used to matter far more than it has for a long time as without it, survival was difficult. Essentially, humans have always lived in some kind of community setup, with small tribes making way for ever larger groups as we began to wander less and settle more. The ability to grow food rather than hunt and gather meant that job roles changed and new services sprang into existence, jobs that were far narrower than previously, jobs that relied on others to do a range of supportive tasks up or down the - production line. A fisher fished, but in order to have grain, they needed the farmer to grow. This resulted in trade.
Fast forward a few thousand years and we have specialized ourselves to such a degree that we need thousands or millions of participants doing various tasks for us to live our lives and, we no longer know who we are dealing with, we have no visibility on even the people who produce the staples of our diet. Everyone is a stranger.
Yet, we continually get into conflicts with the strangers without having any understanding of how they fit into our world, our economy and whether their hands played a role in facilitating our lives. We look at other countries and pass judgement, whilst simultaneously using products sourced or manufactured in those countries, hoping to get them cheaper, faster and more of them. Is it hypocritical in some way?
But if we are paying attention to what is going on in the world with all of the various social movements online and rioting in the streets off, we can see the disconnection, we can see that people are so looking to be part of something, anything will do - and instead of the best of us coming out, we are seeing a lot of the worst. Maybe it is to be expected when we are floating free, disconnected, partitioned off in little boxes from others, self-isolated and fearful of the world outside, the world we know through the highly manipulated media, mass distributed and designed to do just what it has - separate, polarize and fragment society to make us more manageable, less likely to band together and combine our resources effectively.
But perhaps through this current social turmoil we will start to discover the game we have unwittingly been playing, or more accurately, the game where we got played. Personally, I think that Hive is a facet of the awakening of a global society, one where rather than being owned and operated by the tiny minority, we become owners and operators ourselves.
This doesn't take come easily, it isn't an action with an over night result, it isn't going to arrive without work and it isn't going to be accomplished alone. It is going to take many to have - Patience, resilience, financial literacy and value being part of a community.
The value of a community is being able to solve problems larger than an individual can do themselves, to be able to solve many problems simultaneously. For a couple of decades, the internet has continued to close the distance of information and has begun to close the distance between people - but where it is heading now is into the next phase, where communities from every walk of life are able to not only form, but become economic participants in ways that were impossible to scale at anytime in our history as a species.
Power goes to the owners - so we must all take ownership.
Taraz
[ Gen1: Hive ]
