Joy is the ultimate incentive and the most empowering knowledge is its closest relative. The most empowering knowledge can only be determined through the iterative process of taking risks and realizing profit

N.B. This article is part of a series of essays I'm currently writing.

Joy Empowers!

"Without the risk of loss no true measurement of value can be made and no opinion can be trusted. You cannot even trust your own opinion unless you take actions that risk personal loss if your opinion is out of alignment with reality. The greater the risk you are willing to take the stronger your faith in your opinion and the greater your resulting profit or loss will be." @dantheman

Every sovereign individuals thus every Steemians have as their highest interest the dissemination of the most mutually beneficial knowledge. In contrast, all other institutions, companies, governments, armies, etc., have as their highest interest the empowerment of themselves at the expanse of everyone else. Generals, elected leaders and companies always have more empowering knowledge than their subordinates and competitors and their power depends on it.

Synergistic empowerment is a greater ideal than systems of parasitic empowerment or empowerment at the expense of others. Empowerment at the expense of others is what currently rules human society and something we fundamentally strive to do away with.

Steem: The Most Enjoyable Governance Tool Ever Devised!

Steem makes profitable the worldwide cooperative real-time process of determining the most enjoyable/empowering information and its mass dissemination, all of this in a decentralized, censorship-free, tamperproof manner. I've been pondering with its implications for almost a year now and it's been the most enjoyable/empowering endeavor I ever been part of. Learning what creates consensus is of the upmost value.

"The purpose of consensus is to reach agreement. People need to make decisions based upon what other people actually believe whether or not what they believe is true or false." [...]

"Assuming all individuals can communicate and have incentive to live in the truth then truth will prevail. If there is incentive to believe a lie, then the lie will prevail. This applies even on an individual basis." @dantheman (source)

Steem: Synergistical Empowerment Made Profitable!

Every Steemians have every incentives to see Steem price rise and it seems like Steem value is bond to rise. There is a growing number of Steemians competing to create the strongest consensus possible among an ever growing number of Steem Power holders. This make creating consensus ever more difficult and valuable which in return will influence a growing number of rational individuals leading to a virtuous cycle. These trends are already being observed. Also Steem is always being bettered in order to best achieve the will of its Shareholders.

Steem Inc. currently own around 25% of all Steem while Mark Zuckerberg own roughly 30% of Facebook. In the last 2 months Steemit Inc. has sent a pretty strong signal they aren't in a rush to sell. They too have the same incentives as other Steemians in regard to Steem price.

If the price of Steem were to rise 10 fold from its current ~$0.50 (May 7), each Steem would be worth around ~$5, Steem's market cap would be ~$1.3B and under the current algorithm top posts would be worth around $3,000-4,000 which is roughly what a top trending YouTube video makes for 1 day of ~2,000,000 views. It's fun to think Steem could become "The Big News" on every other websites which could ironically lead to their own demise.