## People who actually care design the best products.
Innovation creeps in from the edges. Who was responsible for inventing and upgrading mountain bikes? Was it a bunch of suits in a drafting-room looking to make a quick buck? No, it was a group of biking enthusiasts.
Who created the one of the most popular video game genres (MOBA: Multiplayer Online Battle Arena)? Was it a video game company? No, it was some nerds using the Warcraft 3 map editor to create a game within the game (DOTA) that eclipsed all other activity.
Even the website Etsy is specifically designed for small time producers making custom novelty gifts for products and references with cult-like popularity.
We live in strange times.
People work harder when they love their job. Many enthusiasts put in countless hours working on projects for free simply because they enjoy their hobby. What happens when crypto comes along and monetizes this workforce? What happens when every home in America has a 3D-printer in it with access to hundreds of thousands of schematics? What happens when enthusiasts get paid to do what they love doing?
This is where we are headed, and it's going to be mind blowing. This new emergent workforce is going to put in ten times the effort and collaborate ten times more effectively. Productivity and innovation will explode outwardly in cascading fashion, reaching all corners of the globe.
Automation
We already have the means to free up a massive percentage of the work force. In fact, laws are in place to do the exact opposite. You can't pump your own gas in Oregon because we need those jobs. You can't set up automated warehouses in California because we need those jobs. Automatic checkout is bad because jerbs.
Uh, no, we don't need those jobs.
The only jobs we've created in the last decade are low-paying jokes that no one wants to do, and no one should do. What we need is decentralization. We've been bandaiding this broken economy for decades with zero real solutions to big problems. Something has to change, and that something is coming very soon™.
It's time to work toward a future that doesn't involve redundant jobs that people hate and can already be accomplished by automation. It's time to shift the spectrum of the vast majority of people despising their station to the exact opposite. We no longer have any more excuses. The clock on traditional economy is ticking.
The workforce is making a shift away from doing what needs to done. Automation can already do most of that for us. The Hobbyist Economy is on the horizon and Steem is positioned at the starting line. Everyone here will find themselves on the right side of history, while the centralized leeches of the old system will be plucked off this emerging one.
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