I consider myself not be early here but when I first heard about SN, I started to share my enthusiam for these kind of places where people can publish content and most important, you pay the party.

I'm truly happy for this and the first responses from my inner circles when I showed them this beautiful place was: "well, you're in a eco chamber where maxis will tell you what you want to hear, no other projects" and got me thinking.

And started to check other forum alternatives about it. The main difference between them and us is simple: To insert an answer, you must pay. To insert a post, you must pay. To insert a poll, you must pay.

People who aren't willing to pay for their speech, isn't worth to read. And I don't mean you'll be censored if you don't pay, it's the other way around. Our literature system is totally broken. Writers can't live for their words anymore because internet made everything cheap, which is a good thing but publishers, media and other people in general started to earn through ads, hidden ads, researchs made by [insert your company] and I can still going on and on.

Mostly, writing doesn't have a reason to be because write is free but if we're going to be precise, writing is sponsored by other people who take good care about what you publish in order to no bother the establishment. Writing stopped to be revolutionary, artificial intelligence promotes non-critical thinking because people just don't want to think anymore; what is supposed to be a tool to help you debug faster your code, is now the main assistant of most people, including thinking and being rational.

That's why Stacker is becoming slowly but in a certain way the favorite place to be, user not only earn something but also have quality, good and certain answers. So, to the question: why people don't see what we see here? Aren't we listening other projects? Maybe is because here, we prefer long time preference post and long time preference answers, we avoid casinos, memes and x125 leverage as a way of life¹. You could but, would you pay for it? Would it be that interesting? That's the point.

I know libertarians claiming that bitcoin is not revolutionary² but as many things, it'll take time. And by the way, we're not toxic. We can be assholes and bit rudes, toxic never. Keep you work sir, sooner or later, they realize that we already won.

My two cents.