The reason people feel so deeply stirred by connecting with Hive is because they resonate with the feeling of personal and financial sovereignty here. I've created a contest at the end of this post to put focus on Hive as an alternative to the traditional (trad) economy: corporate oligarchy. Meanwhile, read the post for your inspiration.

How To Become Wealthy

There are only two ways to become wealthy and financially free in most countries:

1. Investing
2. Owning your own business working for YOURSELF

With the exception of engineering, rarely does someone "make it to the top" as an EMPLOYEE by playing fair, being nice, working hard, and just being gal dern skilled at what they do.

Ya can't do it. It doesn't happen.

Gaming The System

The only way to become even moderately wealthy and well positioned as an employee in the "real world" is either corporate enslavement (70-80 hours a week), or gaming the system.

To game the system, either you've got good connections from the start, or you've cleverly worked your way to the top for years and played it right with the right people. But you've compromised a few values (and people) in the process.

If someone is bragging about their position, they are also telling you they manipulated to get there. The alternative is, like I said, being a corporate slave. Either way, you're in a morally appalling situation, and you're STILL not wealthy. Your life depends on you giving away MORE THAN HALF OF YOUR WAKING LIFE TO SOMEONE ELSE!!

The only way to truly be wealthy and free from this code is by owning your own business, and/or investing. Very few reach this destination. And this is by design.

Human Condition = Enslavement of the Many to the Few

Working dozens of hours a week to eek out rent and food is not living. It is slavery. This is by design. It is evil design. It is not a sovereign life.

Just because you have a car and can drive it places doesn't mean you're not a slave to the oligarchy. It's been this way for tens of thousands of years.

There are exceptions of small communities or nations throughout history who have lived sovereignly in a communal space. The Coeur D'elene and the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux tribes are good examples. People be taking home tens of thousands of dollars a MONTH just for being born into the tribe, yo.

But these exceptions are rare. Enslavement is the code of humanity and has been for millennia.

Humanity Is Waking Up

These ideologies are changing, though. Humanity is waking up. People are figuring out this is wrong, that they deserve more, and the inaliable rights thing is starting to kick in without even being told about it.

The idea of being a completely sovereign, self operating, self sufficient human being is so out of most people's context, we don't even talk about it anymore. But we are completely sovereign beings and are meant to operate that way. And we all know it on some level.

This is Why Hive Matters

The reason people feel so deeply stirred by connecting with Hive is because they resonate with the feeling of sovereignty here.

Sure, there's social climbing and stake-based climbing here too. But for the first time, many of us feel as though a true financial and social economy is actually possible -- where people are valued for their WORTH and their CONTRIBUTIONS rather than their manipulations and gaming and enslavement within a system.

The idea sounds a bit fanatical in reach, but I actually think that a system like Hive can commandeer the poverty and enslavement protocol of the rest of the world.

I believe in this place. Always have.

As Long As It Is Kept Sacred

The witness consensus and decentralization needs to remain a sanctuary. As long as corruption stays at a minimum, we have a chance. This is the ONLY thing from keeping us like every other fiat oligarchy out there. All the rest of the wee people piled on a heap could do nothing to keep this place authentic and fruitful if the sanctuary became rotten.

It appears as though the sanctuary has remained intact for the most part. From my slightly less than rose colored vantage point, there appear to be actual investors here who believe in a higher law of financial abundance. Some others have begun climbing their way through the vines with some fresh spirit and ideas forthcoming to generate more interest for our rebellious economy here. @pollenation comes to mind.

I loiter on campus with bated breath to see how we climb out of the darkness and send a beacon of sovereignty to the masses. The first step needs to be making it easier to funge. More on that later.

Hive's Finest: A Contest

Tell me a whale or witness you believe has the platform's best interest in mind, where we can create a vast and shining ecosystem and uproot the human code of enslavement in the rest of the world.

• Rule #1: List as many as you like. Just make a separate comment for each. Make sure you @_____ their name. We don't mind if they stop by, do we?
• Rule #2: Make a case for them. Give examples relating back to a concept in this post that resonates with you
• Rule #3: The proposal with the highest NUMBER of votes wins. So please vote for each other if you support someone's proposal