I was thinking a little today about what k find interesting and how as a kid, I was never really a fan of anything, whether it be sports or music, cars or toys. I liked stuff, but wasn't passionate and I never really got the "collector bug" where I got interested in focusing my attention on something for an extended period of time.
What I realized is my activities on the last 4+ years on Hive, have probably been the most focused, attentive and dedicated period in my life, as well as the period where that collector (hodler) in me has presented itself.
It is easy to think about this is because there is money involved and I am sure that is part of it, but it doesn't explain it all. The reason is, that I make more money working a job and if it was only about the potential future value, I would be able to earn, buy some tokens and sit back for an ROI on the investment.
But there is far more to the crypto scene than financial ROI and while that does direct a lot of the activity, the activities involved are very diverse and there are all kinds of ways to handle each. It takes many moving parts to build an economy and even more to develop it so it is healthy and sustainable. While there is room for passivity in investment, there can't be only passivity and there has to be a lot of interdependence and collaboration between activities, where one adds value to another, the other feeds into a third, building a complexity of relationships.
This allows for evolution along the activity supply chain, whilst still bringing some level of stability that supports continuous improvement, as well as an advancing range of skills required, where some fall by the wayside, others grow in need. In the coming years, a large majority of the news positions available for work (activity) will center around tech, data evaluation and management, supply chain management, IoT, business and security analysis and app development - all of it ripe for blockchain and crypto to play a fundamental part in support.
While as a kid I wasn't interested in much, the last few years on Hive has ramped up my interest in a wide spectrum of areas, all centered around the activity of Hive itself. I have always compared the platform to a representation of the real world and what seems to fly under the radar while everyone focuses on the money, is that much of the Hive ecosystem already supports the economy of the future, including many of the activities that will be common place - and it even incentivizes and rewards participants in tokens that are the trade currencies of the future.
Being on Hive is more than just that 7-day reward, it is being part of the evolution of the world as we know it, a node of activity that is exploring what the future is to become. Yes, many will say that it is rudimentary and imperfect, but this is what gives t so much potential for participation, as there are gapes everywhere to take advantage, to plant seeds, take root and expand outward, building up and across through a network of relationships of activities, all looking to be better than they were yesterday.
A lot of people on Hive think that we are behind the development of the centralized platforms because they have clean interfaces and convenience - but it they who are chasing. It is hard to understand this from a monetary perspective when those companies are worth hundreds of billions and churn trillions, but this is the case of any legacy industry as its replacement matures. Every dead industry saw itself as invulnerable and too big to fail, until it was too late, its failure becoming certain, its previous participants having to join the ranks of the new, or be left in the past with the old.
Money. It is something that has always captured my attention for my need of it and general lack of it, but it is only in the last half of life that I have started to understand it as the tool it is and only in the last few years that I have understood that money isn't the tool, value is. Where that value comes from doesn't matter, how it is used does.
What I see we are doing in crypto now is generating, collecting and storing value that will both grow, and become increasingly applicable to the world in which we live, where we will be choosing the direction it takes, because we not only hold the tools, we are also the ones who generate the activity that makes them valuable. It isn't a matrix of relationships between masters and slaves, it is about a community of owners and operators.
Wealth isn't the end goal, opportunity is.
Taraz
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