> if you can't afford, then work until you can

This thread is full of people worried about adopting masses into Steem and how not spending enough money will... what, make it seem like a childish platform? What planet are you people from?

**Work until you can**, is just about the best way to drive away mass amounts of people. Like the mindset or not, it's the fucking truth.

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I like your addition of a keyword system though. It could be a good middle-ground between our two differing views.

(*Also, not to be antagonistic, but just because someone runs a successful business doesn't mean you should listen to them. "Appeal to authority" / "Listen to the top" is the most blanket & pointless statement I hear often nowadays.*)

How valuable is it really? Because right now, I'd say things aren't exactly looking very good for Steem in terms of users activity.

And how can they squat them if the communities are numerical ID's?

> if you can't afford, then work until you can

Sure, it's easy to say work until you can. I'm not sure how well traveled you are, but you and I are from wealthy countries. Most of the world can't and that's a harsh truth. And they're supposed to be one of the primary benefactors of crypto. At least, that was the idea many years ago.

The increased barrier to entry just prevents more adoption. And no offense to @yabapmatt but, he's running a card game not the entire Steem platform. The work he's doing is great, but it's apples and oranges to what we're talking about here. Also, I didn't know Steem itself was supposed to have a profit driven model? I thought the witnesses were paid for their job to keep the chain up and running, no?

We'll have to find the happy middle ground.  Making it too expensive is just as unwise as making it too cheap.  A set cost is important.  Someone could set up thousands of accounts for 3 steem each, at 40 cents, then sell those accounts for less than the cost of the three steem accounts in the future if the value increases, undercutting the source, and making a huge profit.  Not good, especially if that source is designed to be beneficial to the economy as a whole.

A community should be able to gather enough resources to pay for their community, if they're poor.  It doesn't have to be too expensive or overly expensive to the point only the wealthy can do it.