Actions cost a bit of money when carried out on blockchains. This is so that not just you, but the entire network of today and everyday after can remember.
That is huge. The costs, well, they pale in comparison.
Beyond the costs though, lie rewards, but not the cheap plastic kind nor the shitty user rewards from x, y, or z big bix mega-chain retailor. No.
The rewards are money, because blockchain is the ultimate money medium. And it is already a part of everyone's life, wherever they live and regardless of whether they use it, like it, or not.
Part in parcel with the money medium is the new money economy.
When the money medium was introduced to seventeenth century Japan and the money economy pierced the lives of its citizens, a revolution erupted and lasted over two centuries. Have you been to Tokyo today? Have you seen drawings of Edo period Japan? Think about how absolutely different the two are.
This was a slow, but irresistible revolution of the mind first and foremost based on a reorganization of the sense life of each individual by money, because, as Marshall McLuhan stated, money is an *extension* of human sense lives.
A key change, again according to McLuhan, wrought by the money medium in Japan was a resumption of intercourse with the rest of the world. Unfortunately he glosses over the voracity, scale and volume in which that "intercourse" resumed and expanded.
The screenshot above is of a dialogue that took place on Peepeth, a decentralized Twitter.
As you can see, the original Peep is focused on cost, and Joern seems to be as well, but he also points towards the potential rewards.
@irv also mentions his all-time tweet volume and seems to imply that the number of Peeps he can make for $5 will last a long time (since it appears that he believes he will Peep just like he Tweeted).
But, thinking a bit further in regard to those rewards, what will the impact on @irv and their sense life be when they realize they can earn a non-trivial portion of their income from anywhere through dapps like Cent, Peepeth and whatever comes next?
Imagine if @irv earns enough by liking a response (referred to as 'sorting' on Cent - [link: here]) or by getting tipped for their Peeps that encourage them to Peep more that in turn earn them even more tips that allow them to go anywhere they think is better than where they are.
Do you think @irv will only hit Peep no. 2,400 in the year 2026? Will they only like a few responses on Cent?
I don't think so - just as money cracked open Edo era Japan, I believe we are about to see an *explosion* in global intercourse on a scale heretofore unimaginable.
I don't know if this is the question to close on, but I have to crack on for the day so I will leave this here for you to think about:
If money is power, what will happen when everyone finally feels as powerful as they already are?
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