Your Voice Is Worth Something

No one said it was worth a lot. :)

When I see people complaining about Steem rewards they often point at the SteemIt Marketing Slogan. "Your Voice is Worth Something".

I am not a huge fan of the line either, Frankly, I think it is a pretty dull tagline. I like: Join the Discussion.

However, I think most people here do earn "something" when they post. Not all, but most.

Even if we added Advertising to the site, there are very few posts here that get enough traffic to earn anything on a monetizing program like Adsense.

It's a strange economy we are creating because the inflated value of your "voice" is created by speculation on the Steem token.

Yet the speculation that Steem will hold value is mostly based on the idea that paid content creators will at some point thrive and bring other content creators, who require curators, who will bring investors, who will increase the price of rewards. It's a circle really.

Yet, we tend to see this from our own point of view

Developers: I built the site, nuff said.
Investors: I fund the rewards
Content Creators: If it wasn't for me there wouldn't be anything to upvote.
Curators: There is no point in writing that shit if no one sees it.
Bernie: Shut up or I will flag you

I don't know why I threw Bernie in there, I guess he is kind of his own thing.

We need all of the roles, none of them stand alone.

We do need to retain a few of all of them for the sites to be built and maintained, we need people to write, sing, blog, review, post opinions, vlog, play games,... We need people to read and curate all of those activities and yes, a paid content site needs investors.

What is your role?

Why is it the most valuable role if you think it is...

Let's discuss it in the comment section

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