Is Steemit our occasion to save the world ? Of course, and we'll have to enrich ourselves while we do.

Today the value of Facebook is over 335.000.000.000 dollars.

This value is generated entirely by the fact that 1 billion people uses Facebook everyday.

Facebook is getting value from our natural propension to generate relations and to cooperate. And also from our propension to fight each other, eventually.

But does Facebook cooperate with us ?

• we have to pay to advertise our own business, and Facebook sets the price we pay. And moreover Facebook decides what can be integrated with their site and what cannot. Being Facebook a private company that works for his own interests, this hardly allows anyone with a competing service to survive.

• we not have a say about Facebook policy, and censorship phenomena are already happening.

And Facebook is just an example, but talking about what other companies are doing to our own life and planet would bring this post too far, and I will treat this matter in an other ones.

As early adopters of Steem we have a great responsibility: we have to start to involve our family, our friends, and start using Steem instead of Facebook or other socials, to share our toughts, our experiences, our dreams.

We are going to make a lot of money doing this, but this is not the point.

To understand the point we have to think a bit outside the box, and try to understand the nature of money. And this won't bring us out of topic: because our whole life is conditioned by the functioning of the economic system.

Money is for the society what the blood is for a living organism: it has the function of facilitating the exchanges between the various parts. Like blood isn't a property of lungs or liver, and neither of heart, money shouldn't be a private property of anyone, but only an instrument to facilitate trades. Allowing to trade a future production for instant availabilty of goods and services, money allows anyone who has the skill to do anything to produce something useful for the community.

In the world we can build thanks to cooperation and free currencies, having much money will just mean to have the skills and the responsibility to produce something useful for others.

We will make a lot of money because we are creating an enormous network of intelligences, competences, and hopes. And we are not delivering it in the hands of some "astute" speculator who may only think to his short-term self-interest just cause he can't manage to think to anything better.

We are creating this network of free spirits to hold it in our hands and in the same time share with others.

Many of us will have very soon the availability of dozens or hundreds of thousand dollars that they will use to realize the activity of their dreams, and share their experience with others.

The point are not the thousands, or millions, of dollars. The point is that finally everyone, in every part of the world, will have the chance to do something good for others.

Of course many people will just try to exploit Steem to make some money in the short term. But even this people, who probably learnt from his life experience that the only way to achieve something is to sottract it from an other human being (and it is people like this that we often find at the head of big companies that condition our lives), even this people will have the chance to realize that there is an other way of living waiting from them just outside the box.

I know about this people because I have been one of them for a long time. I have been a professional poker player for many years, and a pretty successful one in my country. When everyone around you thinks that the only thing to make a living is to sottract money from other people you may end to believe that this is really the only way.

But it is not. And we are all here to realize it together.

Happy Steem everyone!

Simone