After basic needs; the final thing money can buy is time. Time to build relationships, create something beautiful, accomplish something. Sometimes you can figure another way out or somehow make time; but often you end up having to choose what you will sacrifice. Will I have a social life or will I paint? Will I work full time and have more money and less time, or work part time and worry about bills?

One thing I appreciated about curie and other curators is their upvotes had given me time I would not have had otherwise to work on my art; and also have a life. I saw a lot of other artists on here experiencing the same thing; a real unsung flowering of creativity was going on due to the gift of time. That seemed to end rather abruptly for many when steem collapsed; but much beautiful work is still being made. Hive breaking off from steem gives me hope; not just for Hive, but also for steem oddly enough. Perhaps they could become two good different places with different philosophies and my favorite artists will come back again.