Oh i wish i wasn't entertaining a guest who is now watching me talk to my phone and edit it lol.

What business do you know, that doesn't require 1000 vectors to float? You may name some, and I bet I can add what makes them way more complex than at a glance.

Nikes? For 50,000 people, of whom, likely only a small percentage of them would buy them? That doesn't make economic sense to implement at scale... yet

But that isn't stopping people from trying, heres just one of MANY sites with disparate lists of places you can spend some steem, with more arriving daily, as mass accumulates.

https://www.coinpayments.net/store-directory-coin-STEEM#list

The misconception you have in the other pull-outs seems to be missing that existing here VERY MUCH is operating a business, a personal brand and a producing your products. And operating a business, takes an education and skill and luck and timing and 10000000000 vectors to align or be managed.

As for the content. Yeah no, we go through this with people endlessly. No, your (not YOU YOUR, generalized your) long blog wouldnt sell to a magazine for 20 bucks, so what makes you think it's worth a red cent here? Entitlement? Socialism? 99% of what is produced here wouldnt EVER see paid print anywhere else.

That army you speak of? Ive been training them for nearly 20 Months. And I've watched the ones who listen, change their lives, quit their jobs, or augment their income significantly here.

I've also used the power of the chain to rally support for thousands of people around the world, who are healthier, clothed and eating today, thanks to steem, THOUSANDS. in about a dozen countries, affected by government corruption,weather, natural catastrophes, and just shitty economies.

I pulled an amount of this place last year worth an amount equivalent to my salary as VP of a real world enterprise software product company. I did that 100% with posting, networking and doing the work. A LOT of work.

Sorry, but I know WAY too many people who came from zero, and paid off their college or are now feeding their families or even doing charity for others, when they arrived penniless, from third world countries and conditions.

It's a real world here. You just got dropped off in New York City, you don't speak the language, you don't know a soul and you are broke. You have no home, and you have no friends. There are criminals and crazy people out to get you.

This happens every day, even the people born in the city, with the language and connections, all have the same thing to face. Survive at a level satisfactory to them.

Some will do the work, network, innovate, create and thrive.

Some will live in fear of muggers and run for the country and subsist at best.

Others will whine and ask for somebody to save them. Those will always be a problem we can't get rid of.

Guess who ends up running the local pizza joint ,the dry cleaner and the chinese carry out. Some of them will franchise and become extremely wealthy.

Hint, it ain't the ones who looked around for answers. It's the ones who defined their own.

I really have to go. But I really want to continue. We will, eventually.

The harsh reality though? is 99% of the "content" on this platform isn't worth two cents, and certainly not $6.95 the average paperback novel costs. Of which the author might see a buck in a GOOD contract. And he might sell ten thousand copies and how long to write, shop and sell the book, then recoup against the advance? Rarely happens to anybody who is not named Clancy or King... and it can take years to recoup if it happens at all.

So yeah, getting a few bucks here is actually a far higher ROI than paper publishing.

And 1000% more likely to gain you income than a personal blog in 2018 even with ads or endorsement deals. That no one but a clancy or king can even get.

The idea that people deserve something here at all is a total fallacy.