The Inner Source .:. MyHiveGoals 2024

ph1102 in #hive-167922 • 2 months ago

Recently, I read the post by @gadrian and we had a great discussion in the comment section of it, which moved my grey cells in may different direction... I have even mentioned to him that his post inspires me and that I will probably write a post on a similar topic... When I wrote that, I had one idea for the post... As time was passing and my brain was still thinking about that discussion, I had another idea for the post... In the end, after a day passed, here we are, with a completely different post, which was actually inspired by @mypathtofire's comment in the comment section of the same post... You gotta love HIVE and Hivians! 😃

I have to admit that sometimes (maybe too often), I have doubts about different things... Probably some of them aren't backed up by anything, but some of them are valid... I suppose that getting older and accumulating life experience doesn't help in believing things that we believed before... For example, in that discussion in the comment section, we were talking about economic growth, which usually means technological growth, and probably many other "advances"...

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When I was younger, we learned about these things in Psychology, Philosophy, and Sociology books, trying to explain the human need to develop new things, to innovate, to make things better, etc. One of the explanations of WHY we are doing that is pure curiosity... We want to explore and research because we are curious... fair enough... could be...

Another explanation is that we want to make our lives easier, that we want to make this world a better place, so that can be the reason for innovation and growth... Another solid reason, but somehow, it's like 50-50% successful... Maybe our lives are easier than they were before, but did we succeed in making this world a better place to live?

In the end, here comes the kicker, which comes from my "negative side"... Is it possible that this growth is driven by human greed? That in the end, we just want more money? That we want to have more money than our neighbors, friends, or colleagues? Capitalism is based on money as the center of everything... Every product is created/invented/distributed because it is profitable, and not because it is "the best for the world", or we can go even further, "best for the consumer"...

Sorry for a bit of FUD blogging today, but for me, it looks like we are at a crossroads in these times... Does this world really have to be built around money? Isn't there a better solution? Even #MyHiveGoals are based on numbers, and tokens, which are some form of money... 😒

Back to those stinky #MyHiveGoals numbers... 2 weeks after the last report...

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The chart is going up, which is always great to see... That big spike was the HivePUD, but the rest is all author, curation rewards, and a bit of everyday powering up HIVE!

The current HivePower number looks like it's rigged as at the moment of writing this post, it was almost exactly 91000! And to make things even more awkward, the amount of accumulated HP from 14 days ago, if I deduct the HivePUD 1K power-up, is exactly 666 HP! Wow! That's a bit scary too... 😃 lol... I was a bit more active lately (except the last 2 days, lol), but the ratio between my author and curation rewards is almost 50-50!! In the last 30 days, my author rewards were 712HP, and my curation rewards were 660HP! The snowball effect of curation is happening!

After reaching my monthly goal for SWAP.HIVE:LEN shares last month, I pulled the break on that one... As I got some cheap LENM tokens (having some opened buy orders is sometimes a good idea), I paired them with my LEN tokens in another pool... Because of that, not many LEN tokens left for this pool that I'm counting for #MyHiveGoals... Anyway, my LENM stack has depleted and I can focus again on this goal... 🙂 I did add a small amount of shares, but that will go up faster until the next report... :)

The finish line for my Rising Star yearly goal is closer and closer... In the last 2 weeks, I have added almost 440 cards to my collection, which means that I'm under 800 cards away from my yearly goal! This could happen in the next 4 weeks or less! I could reach my yearly goal in mid-August! I still have no plans to raise or not this goal, but I will probably do it as the end of the year is still far away... But, let's wait until 30K NFTs and then think about it... 😃

These were my initial numbers and goals for 2024, created on January 7th, 2024...