We Can All Be A Bit Like Marc DeMesel

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2 years ago

There is something that I think about often as I spend my time here and on noise, and that I have gleaned from other places on the Internet that are essentially "pay to write" sites.

They help a lot of people. Or, perhaps more importantly, they have the ability to help a lot of people.

There is something unique though that does separate places like noise and read from others I have been a participant on, and that is that here and on noise we have an ability to directly contribute on these sites.

We can tip. Therein, I have the ability to help a lot of people.

What's more, I do not necessarily consider it charity. While the things we do on these sites is not a job, and therefore not necessarily work, there is at least a bit of effort and time necessary in order for it all to "get done." So, in a way it is not at all like just giving someone something for nothing. I consider it tips that are earned just as much as I feel the tip I give to a delivery driver who arrives at my door with a fresh, hot pizza is earned.

For me the thing is I live in the United States. Call it for what you want. The land of opportunity? A rich country? Whatever your fancy. $100 is not much here. But in other parts of the world $100 could support someone for a month or more. And I also realize that in other parts of the world there is a greater struggle just to survive and get ahead.

In the United States I can get a good job with a good salary, and I can save and invest my money in any number of ways to get farther ahead financially and even get rich if I do the work and want to take the necessary steps.

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That can be a much harder prospect for some people in other parts of the world.

I always keep it in my mind that the word "poor" is defined very differently in a country like Venezuela than it is in the United States. Poor is defined differently in a country like South Africa, or Nigeria, or even the Philippines.

The poor in the United States still enjoy many things that poor people in other countries can only dream about. They can drive nice cars, live in decent homes, have big screen TVs and cell phones, laptops and cable TV service among many other things that some might consider luxuries.

It is something that simply gives me pause as I consider my own life and my own opportunities. Including the unique opportunity I have through platforms like this to contribute to someone else's opportunity that for me is a pittance, but to someone else is a treasure.

We cannot all be Marc DeMesel of course. But we can be a bit like Marc DeMesel in what we do and how we choose to conduct our activities here and on noise.

In a sense, the idea or concept, if you will, is not much unlike the idea or concept of paying it forward. A practice that has become quite commonplace here in the United States—for example, you are in the drive through at a fast food restaurant and you pay for the guy's food in the car behind yours.

Is it generosity? Is it hope for good karma? Or does it just feel good?

I suppose the reason one decides to do it depends on the person, and it is likely that everyone has a different reason for doing it. The end result, however, is the same. The person on the receiving end will be grateful for the gesture. Some will continue to pay it forward.

What we do here might be simple "micro-tips." On the surface they are not worth much. But they do also add up. And we can decide to do it from our own pocket if we so choose, or from a percentage of the money we earn on these platforms. We have the ability, on other words, to share and give back. We have the ability to pay it forward.

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At the end of the day I think that is at least one of the concepts behind the creation of noise and read. Sure, its primary function is to spread the word on BCH and heighten crypto awareness, and perhaps create transactions that help to fuel its advancement. But it also about people helping people. It is about people like me, in places like the United States where money and opportunity is plentiful, helping people in other parts of the world where money is scarce and opportunity practically nonexistent.

Because that's also something we learn as we peruse around these sites. And that is that people are people. We may live worlds apart and enjoy slightly different cultures. But we are also very much alike in our hopes and dreams and desires and aspirations.

We all just want to live a good and rewarding life.

At the same time we can easily recognize that a lot of the "struggle" of some people in other parts of the world is not by their own design necessarily. For example, if someone in the United States is poor, it is easy to recognize the reason for it. It is not for lack of opportunity here. It's for lack of motivation, and for lack of recognizing what the opportunities are and seizing upon them.

Governments and economic policy in other parts of the world are the root cause of the poverty their people suffer. And that makes it very different. It also makes the dynamics of sharing and giving different.

What prompted me to write this article was one fellow read.cash user trying to get enough money to buy a laptop. Something here that would not necessarily be a concern for most.

For us we just go to the nearest store and buy one without hardly a second thought. It's not a life changing event, nor does it necessarily cost us that much in terms of money. It's just a laptop after all.

Image by Porwest, screen shot of Sydney2 post. I Only Need $80 To Buy My First Ever Laptop (read.cash)

But to someone else in another part of the world, it is a doorway to a world of opportunity and joy. It is a life changing thing.

And so, when you happen to be someone living where I live who has probably five laptops in the house and you know that it was not a struggle to get one, it makes you think differently about what it means to someone else just to have one.

Whether it is helping someone with a nickel here and nickel there to get a new laptop, or a nickel here or a nickel there to help someone put food on the table for their family, or a nickel here or a nickel there to help someone fix their roof after a typhoon, or whatever the money might be used for...

I think it makes us all a little bit better as people in general. Marc DeMesel is one guy making an impact on 100's of thousands of lives. Imagine what impact we can all make if we are just a little bit like Marc DeMesel?

If that's ultimately the real accomplishment of cryptocurrency, then I am all-in.

Lead image by Porwest, screen shot of Marc DeMesel Read.cash profile page. MarcDeMesel (read.cash)

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You are well written, or you are trying to inspire people for empathetic engagement, micro-tipping, clicking "likes," etc. Writing a short and supportive comment is an equally worthy contribution to a newbie's blogging life. Or, writing an article on how to buy a laptop computer with less money is also a big help to the underprivileged. Yes, I have posted one article on it - "Linux Reduces Your Computer Price" https://read.cash/@Unity/linux-reduces-your-computer-price-3ae7260e

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2 years ago

You are so right about tips, small sacrifice to make someone's day wholesome expeciallly because they fully earn it

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2 years ago

Greetings friend, excellent post, you are very right, I live in Colombia and here it is very difficult to emerge and get ahead, there are people who make a purpose of their lives helping other people with their own resources, hopefully we can reach such great levels of generosity, happy day.

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2 years ago

Readcash and noise had been a very big help for many of it's users.first,we learned a lot of things through each other's posts,we learn how to get along well with different people of different raises,we learn how to follow rules and a lot more things.In short,what Marc DeMesel did not just gave us the chance to earn but also to learn and improve.

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2 years ago

As a fellow citizen of Nigeria I understand this article very deeply, life brings different opportunity and the place we find ourselves also matter. Getting a laptop here is a very big deal for some people because its a door of many opportunity as you have to pay for everything you use, getting electricity, data to access the internet and many more can be so tough, I know getting BCH to the top will left many people from poverty level and I'm all in for it

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2 years ago

You have understood the message that both readcash and noisecash have, notice in my case I noticed that this type of platforms shows and teaches us that no matter where you are, you can donate or "vote" the content you like using BCH, whenever you want and in the amount you prefer.

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2 years ago

Poor in your country can be considered rich here in the Philippines. That is why many people have this "American dream."

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2 years ago

The poor here definitely do not know how good they actually have it. I think they should spend a month in REAL poverty to have a better perspective of what it really is all about.

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2 years ago

I am grateful that these platform existed it's a really life-changing and as someone who likes writing and creating topics, I never get paid for that even I posted them in facebook only here they get appreciated and rewarded for their true value.

The difference in exchanges is what makes the US dollar big to us. You have $100 to buy chips while here that is already 5,000 which can already pay a lot. I suppose to think that these economic difference are due to how early civilization started in other country like in europe, they've been battling economic problems for a decades but now they're getting stability. Philippines and the other little countries are still starting a life and let us see many years from now if what are going to be the changes.

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2 years ago

For old users who cares we do that, although we can't give like how Marc gives at least we are doing it a little than others.. as for the definition of poor varies, I agree that's why most of us here (PH) think U.S or other first world countries poor are already rich or middle class in our country because the poor in there still enjoys life while in here poor means literally starving, no shelter and etc.

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2 years ago

I have long said that America's poor need to spend a month in a really poor country to appreciate how much they really have.

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