What is the cutoff point at which you can no longer "be bothered" to do something, or participate in something?

What are your criteria?

In this case, I am considering those things we do in the very long term, whether it's investing, pursuing a hobby, friendships or something else... it can lean towards the personal or more global.

We had visitors for the Thanksgiving holiday and I actually got to talking with one of our visitors about Crypto, and even about Hive and my sporadic efforts at blogging.

This person allowed as how she didn't think she could "be bothered" to create and post content to a community like Hive.

I found it interesting and amusing, especially against the backdrop of knowing that this person can be bothered to quite frequently share content to places like Facebook and Instagram, where she gets nothing at all for her efforts.

Which made me think about this strange way in which humans place a completely different emphasis on what we might call "ego rewards," as opposed to financial rewards.

Many people will jump at the chance of doing something if there's even the slightest chance that their peers might notice and say "Wow, what you did there was amazing!" even if there's no monetary reward, at all.

But if you offer someone $1, $5... maybe even $20 for the exact same thing, suddenly the evaluation of value to that person becomes quite different!

Although this would be a topic for a completely different post, it does make me wonder if we could use these sort of juxtaposed comparisons to determine the "price" of any given person's ego?

But I digress!

Personally, I find it worthwhile to continue dabbling in blogging and engaging on Hive after several years, even though my account is worth little more than $265 + about $80 on Hive-Engine, as a result of aforesaid dabbling.

In the greater context of life, that's not much! But the rewards — on the scale I manage to scrape a few of them together — may well be financial, but I'm not really here for the money.

These tiny amounts I find that I can be bothered with are about the challenge of it, more than the actual value in dollars and cents. Although — at the purely functional level — I am often dealing with a few cents (or even fractions of cents) I find it "worthwhile" to dabble... perhaps offering evidence that the whole idea of "gamification" really does work!

And so, I find that I can "be bothered" for reasons that are neither entirely financial, nor entirely psychological.

But because I can be bothered, I tell myself that I am building something that is worthwhile, at least to me. Even though it is very unlikely that I will ever "cash out" — except maybe my HBD savings to help pay for a new computer — I like the idea of feeling like I am creating a small "savings balance."

It all seems strangely symbolic and hypothetical, if you think about it!

Regardless, I plan to keep on "bothering" and building. Because if you don't bother it is a certain way to end up with nothing at all!

Till the next one... I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving. Feel free to leave a comment — this IS "social" media, after all!

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