"...only trading can remind you why you ignore that voice..."

Eventually you remember, you become that voice. I have learned that financialization is a trap I cannot slip. There is a coordination, zersetzung, that is able to focus down to a degree that is inconceivable, and can be applied across every mechanism that requires transactions, and many that do not. I learned this to my great amazement, and inconsolable dismay. If they select you out of the herd, there is nothing you can do to escape their implacable coursers.

I value Hive not as a currency, but as the measure of the esteem of my peers on Hive. I don't seek to increase it via financialization, because that would devalue it to me, causing it to no longer represent that estimation, but be inflated into a pretense of estimation comparable to narcissistic conceit for my purposes. I use over 25% of my author rewards to encourage creators that are incessantly flagged in an attempt to censor them, and to tip authors because that can't be flagged away, so my Hive fortune underrepresents the esteem of my fellows. Better to be too humble than blinded by hubris into conceit, I feel.

I have learned to transact in goodwill because that cannot be stolen, inflated, taxed, or rust. I can only transact with people capable of goodwill, and because of this my social circle has vastly improved, a prize of inestimable value.