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      "body": "no, it doesn't\n\ndan and ned didn't steal the steem, they created it, they earned it, they deserve it\n\nanarchy doesn't mean lawless or equal or anything like that, all it means is that there's not 1 single group who holds a monopoly on violence ... dan and ned didn't force anybody to join or buy steem, big difference with what the government is doing!",
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      "body": "Yes. Move along now.\n\nOh, OK, I’ll expand. A version of this question popped up in discussion a couple of days ago. I thought I’d jot down a few thoughts to see if I could justify my knee-jerk response.\n\nAdapt to survive\n\nIt’s not like “old” media were some monolith of iron conformity. As you worked your way around different editors and various publications – especially if you were freelancing – you continually adapted to changing demands, expectations, idiosyncrasies. My opening gambit in this piece is a nod to an old editor who particularly hated question-form headlines. I would never have dared write like that for him, but other editors didn’t give a monkey’s about such matters. Instead, they might have ranted, ‘Give me an active verb!’ Which I would gladly provide, while obviously obeying the House Style Guide that decreed that No Sentence Could Begin with a Conjunction.\n\nSocial media cares still less, and so while I actually tend to agree that question-form headlines are for the birds, today I’m temporarily liberating myself from conformity to my own opinion.\n\nI can’t see that the skills of adaptability that were so essential in the offline world are any less relevant to this or that online environment. As I’ve proposed elsewhere, the Whales on here can be compared to editors, and so a writer solely concerned with climbing the greasy pole of Steemit success may be well advised to take a strictly old-fashioned approach: study what a given Whale/editor likes; write something that panders to his/her interests and prejudices; then present it when there’s a good chance they might pay attention.\n\nAlternatively, there’s the approach of the newsroom kiss-ass, who awaits pronouncements from the important personage they’ve decided to hitch their star to, then agrees with them. As I understand it, the Steemit system is specially designed to reward this sort of behaviour, allotting superior value to early comment on popular posts. Nothing hard to understand for old-timers there.\n\nMastery of communication is the core skill\n\nIt’s easy to lose sight of this when you see semi-literate waffle upvoted into the stratosphere, but the frequent success of patent rubbish online is not something we should  be a) surprised at or b) upset about. It’s merely the online environment holding up a mirror to the real world. \n\nDoes the success of MacDonald’s mean that their burger-making techniques represent the Gold Standard that all chefs should aspire to?\n\nThe basic skills of written communication have not been altered by the internet or by any particular online platform. Writing remains a skill to be honed by practice and reference to peer judgement. Your references can go out of date and that may be what leaves some feeling ‘irrelevant’. But the underlying skills should always be there, ready to be polished and brought back up to date. Skills have enduring value; opinions and celebrity are just so much trash, yet worth so many Steem Dollars. Just like the real world.",
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      "body": "I definitely don't recommend grenade chucking! And I definitely relate to the approach of observing. I find myself increasingly interested in Steemit's potential as a conversation tool. Controversy can be a cheaply exploited hook, but is also the keeper of all the good questions. I think you've asked a good question is all. I've found that when I feel like something is off here and no one seems aware of it that within a week it will come out and become a topic for a moment, like the bot wars topic. It may be that this question will ask itself. :)",
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      "body": "Cheers. I've actually been thinking a lot about the blockchain and the writings of the so-called anarchists about crypto and the like, but so far I've shied away from tackling this head on in writing. It's a bit of a minefield and, like you, one of the things I've appreciated here so far is the general atmosphere of respect and courtesy. I'm a bit worried that might not survive lobbing a grenade into the anarchists' midst; they tend to chuck them back!",
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      "body": "Thanks for coming here and sharing a professional writer's perspective. I'm an amateur who came from the newspaper industry and feel my skill set has lost relevance. I say that to introduce an idea that has probably already occurred to you: Steemit presents an enticing opportunity for amateurs to be relevant (though not necessarily well-paid) by learning to write for the Steemit community in a conversational way. For instance, I noticed in a comment you wrote:\n>Isn't this an even more extreme version of capitalist exploitation? \n\nI'd love to see you write a version of this question in a post aimed at opening discussion with the anarchist community, or in the money section, respectfully challenging the same core assertions you do in this post. I think the most exciting potential of Steemit is its ability to host conversations. There are heart-swell-inducing amounts of respect and courtesy on Steemit, especially compared to facebook and the comments sections of articles.\n\nI'll be following you and curious what you conclude about Steemit.",
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      "body": "According to my reading of the Steem White Paper, one of the issues this is designed to address is what the WP says bluntly on page 25: 'Micropayments Dont' work.' While I think you're right that increasing market cap will diminish the obvious inequity of the Whales vs Everyone Else situation right now, what it won't do is address the overall power imbalance that I increasingly feel the blockchain favours. As market cap grows, the value of small holdings will dwindle towards nothing, while large holdings will grow in absolute terms even as they shrink in percentage terms. The real issue for me is this appropriation of surplus value by big players - be they founders, early adopters or simple investors who have bought their positions directly (in a straight cash-for-influence/power swap that could hardly be more nakedly 'capitalist'). It's very clever and it's probably going to make a few people rich.",
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So what I’ve mostly been thinking is not, “How much money might I make from Steem?” but “How might Steem affect the writing itself?”\n\nHence my attention-seeking title (yes, I used to write newspaper headlines), inspired by that old saying about the road to hell being paved with good intentions. In this case, it’s those founding principles laid out on page 5 of the White Paper. \n\nThey sound profoundly democratic and fair, and it’s hard not to cheer the very idea that the acts of writing, reading and sharing knowledge could create value for those directly concerned, rather than for those who own or control the medium. The internet has generally been bad news for professional writers. Jobs in the traditional media have vanished, and the new media often fails to value old-fashioned skills of writing and editing. So hurrah for something that promises to add value to the written word and give it to the person who wrote it, rather than the one who sold it or just passed it on.\n\nWhether or not creative work should concern itself with a “fair” environment, or whether creative endeavour can be usefully valued against reading and “curating” are questions I want to come back to. For today, I’m most interested in the potential impact of Steem on the psychology and motivation of the writer, and hence on his or her end result.\n\nThis is going to call for some generalization.\n\nIn one corner, we have the amateurs. I’m not using that term to look down on anyone, just to define a group of people who do something for motivations other than money. We have bloggers who have never sought or earned a cent from their writings, people who before the internet came along probably wrote no more than diaries and letters to their friends and family members. Maybe the politically inclined wrote pamphlets and posters.\nSome wrote purely for themselves, others for a certain readership. But all had a certain “freedom” that the professional lacks – in that if they felt unable to say what they wanted, they could choose to say nothing at all. Try telling your editor at the paper that you can’t fill that 1,000-word space on page 2 today.\n\nIn the other corner we have the professionals, those who at least try to make a living from the written word. All would like to write what they want; an tiny number succeed in this ambition. The rest consider the market. What does this or that editor like? What’s fashionable this summer? What does the brief from the PR agency tell me to do? 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