It's funny how easily some people throw away a 5C coin of sneer at a post that makes 5C on Hive.

These are the same people who post 100 times a week on twitter or Instagram in the faint hope of becoming important or influential while earning nothing for all of their efforts.

They don't see the value in earning a few dollars a week for their social media activity but willingly spend hours upon hours for free???

It's hard to understand sometimes.

I realize that there are a lot of barriers to getting involved in a platform like hive but over time they are being reduced 1 by 1.

There are 1,385,000 new articles posted on Medium.com every month.

This comes from a statistics blog on medium here which does the math and how much value goes back to the authors.

That rounds out to about $1.20 per article on Medium in 2020

And a nice 10,850 (6.2%) earned over $100 in August

Now we can't compete with Instagram or twitter with what has been develop on hive (so far) but we can compete with medium.

This is my last 30 days on Hive,

163.28 HP 82.29 HBD 237.46 HP 0 HP 400.75 HP 82.29 HBD $276.26

Not including any tribe tokens like LEO and my splinterlands account which are all adding money to the pot on a daily basis.

Money for doing what others are doing for free. Now technically I would be a large account on Hive which makes it easier to earn after five years of growth but there were a lot of years where I was just a small account grinding away.

The difference here to web2 sites is that while both can earn you money in theory. With hive you can keep compounding those earnings and grow your income organically.

Even if your only earning cents to start with. By staking to your account and staying active you will earn curation rewards.

These add up to grow your account and things keep moving forward.

It's not easy but as the eco-system fills out and we have more alternatives to traditional sites i think that people will wake up at some stage and start building up their accounts on hive based apps.

As long as we keep growing and keep developing these alternative options to the same level as the old competition then at some stage there has to be a tipping point of onboarding new users to individual apps and moving to the top of the crypto charts.

Why not earn for activities that you are doing for free everyday? i would be madness not to.

Until now the main things holding us back has been usability and marketing but i fell that these will come over the next couple of years as better apps keep being built.

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