I love thinking about Steem, and several of the ideas behind Steem being applied to as many situations as possible. I think Steem has, at least the first big part of, the solution to the problem of bringing back the value of our attention to ourselves. Companies like Facebook and Twitter are pretty good at harvesting the value of our attention for themselves. But I'm still stuck at how Steem can pull value from outside, either for itself or for it's users. I get the transaction fees, and I get new investments, but those alone don't seem to get me over the hump. Facebook is worth over $100 Billion because what it can bring to parties willing to pay.

I feel like I'm missing something in the equation.