Since everyone has been freaking out lately and there seems to be little upside in the coming weeks in terms of price & marketcap; I thought I'd share my opinion on why none of that really matters...
Ever since I found this project, I saw the value in it. Not because of the money I could make personally, because lets face it, I'm no writer. But at the same time, I can see the immense value created right off the bat within Steem, not for me, but for everyone else. For as long as we can remember knowledge has been stuck behind library walls, inside government buildings and so on. Most of which require some sort of method of obtaining this knowledge, sometimes they charge you a rental fee of some sort or perhaps they just make the information so hard to get to, that the amount of effort required makes getting the information seem pointless.
Extrapolate this into the legal system and things get hairy quickly... I think Steemit can solve many of these issues by incentivizing people to build an open-source library of content & knowledge. From this system we can create who new search engines, content discovery sites & beyond... all of which will be pioneered by users like us. And while its nice we can make some money doing this, more importantly I think is the idea that we can build a product better than a library, we can build an open source knowledge platform for everyone to use and learn from.
No longer do we have to ask permission to rent a book, get past a paywall, dig through shelves upon shelves of stuff for exactly what we need; we can just organize the internet around the concept that Steemit pays you to create, give it 5 years and I vet we have the largest content library around..
So back to why I don't care about the current or future price of Steemit...
Money might run the world, but knowledge keeps us moving forward and becoming better human beings. I see Steemit as a way to revolutionize that concept and speed everything up in terms of knowledge creation & sharing. Social media aspects aside, Steem has the potential to displace the entire school & library systems of the world, for the better. And thats one ride I want to be a part of. Whether the Steem token is worth $0.25 or $25000 doesn't matter to me. I'm here for the concept of freedom, the purpose of knowledge and the fight for decentralization. You should be too.