We have been living a certain way our entire lives. With certain rules, restrictions, and limitations that become so normal, you can’t even notice them—like a fish not noticing he’s been in water his entire life. So it’s easy to see why it is difficult for the average person to comprehend the true potential of Cryptography and Blockchain technology—which is to decentralize the world.

If you’ve studied technology and quantum mechanics at all, then you know that it is a 100% certainty that we will all be free one day. Free from power structures or centralized institutions that are able to exert influence over us. And even free from the need to have things like “currencies” at all. Scarcity is a phenomenon that does not exist elsewhere in the universe—we just have it here because those said power structures have set up zero sum games for us to operate in. But with the rise of crypto, that power will begin to steadily decrease, as we are just now beginning to see.

As long as there exists scarcity, steemit is the first to market in the decentralized information game, but it will not be the last, nor “beat out the rest”. That’s not how free markets work. Companies, platforms, and special groups do not win in perfect competition environments—we ALL win, simultaneously. In other words, the individual—you and me—wins.

The crypto space (not steemit itself) is indeed a free market in its infancy, far from perfect, yet, but it’ll get there. This means steemit will have plenty of long term competition biting at its heels. It’ll be up to them to compete to devise a system that provides information in an honest manner, or the people simply walk to the next best thing.

It’s difficult to comprehend the efficiency of a free market because you and I have never seen one—not even close. But once the world learns how to use decentralized computing, the world as we know it will radically change.

The idea of “lobbying” will quickly become a thing of the past—or, at minimum, a grossly inefficient choice.