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RE: Startup Blabber #004: The Hamptons Five

in #business7 years ago

Talking about retirement and retirement plans would be an entirely different beast to tackle. That topic looks rather dire in here as well, but from what I have heard, that seems to be the case almost everywhere.

To be honest, I find topics like these very tiresome. If I had my will, I would be able to just live without having to waste thought on getting, having, saving or making money in any way, shape or form and could focus on things that are much more interesting or promising. But that is probably a form of luxury no money can buy.

Regarding the youth, the next generation, I do agree that they have a lot of potencial going for them and them making mistakes is a good thing because with every mistake that is being made comes a lesson. The only thing I wish for all the youths on this planet would be better rolemodels and teachers.

I described how people look at themes like work and finances and of course, these views are being pushed onto the next generation. I consider that to be actual damage being done to them and it is damage that is very hard to repair.

I know a girl, an actually passionate and dedicated writer. I told her about steemit and that this platform is a great way to post some of her things, get feedback from interesting people from all kinds of places with the added benefit of maybe being able to make some extra money on top of it.

Obviously, she rejected because she thinks that the idea of making money off of such things is wrong. Occurances like this makes me wonder what some people are being thought in their homes.

As much potencial as the upcoming generation has, they need much better rolemodels and teachers that help them embrace and utilize said potencial.

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Actually, I don't think I will talk about retirement plans at all. My knowledge on such matters is so low that I'm not sure if I can formulate a good opinion on those topics.

With regards to steemit, I do see a lot of good from this platform, which is why I decided to join and even blog in the first place. There are some grounds to the girl in your response. Ideally, in some utopian society, you would not want to be "paid" for your opinions, but I'm not sure I am in the same boat as hers. The contribution from incentivized work and from unincentivized work is fundamentally different.

I am pretty practical when it comes to these things.

If you are good at something, never do it for free.Doing so will only devalue everything you do and represent and that kind of behaviour and thinking will be very hard to get rid of and hold you back for a very long time.

Regarding the topic of having opinions compensated, one must note that this isn't anything new either. We live in times where corporations pay huge amounts of money and try to cheat the systems in many a way in order to get informations about people, their preferences etc.

Google and Facebook being the more prominent examples, but also things like reviewing apps that compensate you with all sorts of percs do qualify here.

The thing with steemit is that it takes a different approach, one that I particulary enjoy as far as I can tell.