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When you form an idea in your mind about something and you don't share it you will eventually start to think that the idea that you formed is the truth.

Here in lies the power of debate for me.

I do share a lot of ideas that I have about Steem with everyone but it's not always easy to discuss these ideas with a variety of people on the internet in text.

But here, on Steemfest 3, I can and it's so refreshing.

One of those ideas that crept in my mind lately is that I believe that individual bloggers/content creators will eventually lose against communities with thousands of members when it comes to earning STEEM.

It just made sense to me that these communities will just suck up all the STEEM from the reward pool. Why? Well they earn a lot of SP through their business model and can use that to rewards their community and grow it even more.

As an individual you can't fight against that I thought and so I believed individual blogging would die out. You must join a community to survive.

After talking about it on Steemfest with a lot of people I have changed my mind a little bit.

I think @nanzo-scoop phrased it the best. 

"You don't have to be the size of Sony if you are Micheal Jackson".

Now I doubt any of us are Micheal Jackson but neither are the projects here the size of Sony.

I guess what he mend was that even though Sony is a very big company making more money than most individuals it doesn't mean that an individual can't make it in their on right.

So I'm hopeful for content creators that see themselves as a company and building their brand. 

But things will change for them as it will change for projects on the blockchain.

Building a community around yourself is very important. 

Also other revenue streams must be in place because relying on the reward pool as a 'individual' is going to be tough if you don't bring in our own SP at the start. 

It's going to take time.

Anyone new to the blockchain and trying to find a stable income here will have to work hard.

Much harder than those first generation bloggers (That first mover advantage is gone forever) and harder than most people (probably two jobs, daytime and blogger/vlogger next to that).

I guess as a new person I would look at joining an existing community first and build a name there. It also allows you to earn your first STEEM/SMT there to start. 

From there you can grow until you are big enough to stand on your own feet or move to a bigger community.

It's going to be a project and investment in yourself that will take you years to do from scratch but it won't be impossible if you really want to.

But it's not for the faint of heart. You will feel happy and sad on this journey. You feel like you wan't to give up and some will.

Again this is for the people that want to live off the blockchain, not the person that just want's to have fun.

It's not easy.

Show up everyday, make connections, work your brand, work on yourself and then it should be fine.

The reward will be worth all the pain. 


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