Have you ever, during some seemingly satisfactory moments of your life, hoped, a little bit insatiably, that if the world could just be a bit more perfect? 

Just a little bit more, really.

Yeah, that’s what came to my mind when I came across a post, an old enough post, this morning. The post is here.

Not again! You might want to say so if you happened to see some posts in Chinese for the past two days advocating for voting certain witness. I will get to that shortly. But I am not gonna do the same thing. At least not directly.

Hear me out.

If there is anyone, other than @dantheman or @ned, anyone that has had the biggest influence on my Steem journey so far, it has to be Abit. No doubt. And this probably applies to 99% users, old or new, hanging out in the cn community. Hence, naturally, when we gradually learned to know what witnesses do and that we can vote, we vote for the guy. If we can vote all our 30 votes on him, we probably will do so too. But of course you are not allowed. Even when I learn a bit and a bit more about witnessing, I feel a bit and a bit more confident with my vote. Abit isn’t a lousy witness at all by all measurements and thank God we don’t have to face the decision of voting for a better witness or voting for a whale who supports you. The choice couldn’t be easier for me, at least in the current setting when I am only allowed one vote for each witness. I probably will not vote all 30 votes on Abit if I am allowed. Probably just 20, no, 19 votes.

“Do you understand the technical details of witnessing?” You might want to ask. I don’t. 

I write, I blog but I don’t know technology. 

I use more sensibility than sense here. I heard what others said about him about his ability as a developer. I felt how he might be like as a bloke in real life from my side-watching in cn wechat (an instant messaging App) group. I have never spoken in private to him except on Steemit or on wechat group publicly (my fault, man! I should do so really as I owe you a big thank you!). According to my sensibility, he is definitely a let-me-code-or-I-might-be-bored-to-death type of guy (you call that a geek? oh, well…). A person with such traits? Sound familiar? No good for marketing this platform, no good for promoting Steem, no good for bringing in fat investors… But he’s the BEST witness you can ever hope for! That’s just my hunch though.

Oh, sorry! This post isn’t about voting for Abit. At least not directly. So, what is it for? 

Thanks for reading so far. I will get to the point in a bit… 

Okay! Back to when I saw the post. No, it’s not the whole content that triggers me to write this post. Shown below.

This is abit, an experienced witness. Will you vote for me?

Seriously, some might even downvote this with such a short and idiotic expression! :P

Neither is it for the much longer comment made by the self-upvoting author after the downvoting Creator hinted for a bit more introduction. 

“What then? What the Fxck have you being sentimental about this post!? There is barely anything else! Don’t tell me it’s about those recent clueless and naive Chinese remarks or it’s about the $221.43 payout or … what!? Gimme a break. What the hell is it!?”

Sorry my dear readers! My writing instructor taught me to write articles like this. Blame her. I don’t mean to make you wait. And here it is.

It’s the post age shown. Yeah… it says

Wow! this is,… for the first time in my Steemstory, which is a little bit longer than one year and counting , that I see such a description of post age. Usually, it would be at most a couple of months old if I happened to check older posts. Most of the time I don’t bother checking posts older than 7 days because they are simply worthless.

I felt some moisture in my eyes when I saw these two magical words “last year”. That’s probably the most powerful two words that I’ve ever come across on this platform (dan, the, man… three!).

Awesome job everyone for sticking around here. Those who left and returned for money please get lost… Ha ha no, I am just kidding! But seriously don’t you celebrate with me!

Yeah, yeah I know that many including Ned post about Steemit Anniversary or Happy Steem Birthday and so on a while ago already… Sure, sure. 

But the blockchain never speaks to me like this before. “last year”… last year!!

“Errr… excuse me, Steem. When was this post written?“ I ask politely.

“last year“ Steem says, without emotions.

See!? Don’t you want to cry, want to shout and want to curse too!?

Congratulations to all Steemians! So now you know why I feel that today is such a lovely day in my life and why I hope, with a little bit of insatiation, that if the world could just be a bit more perfect. I know I am being greedy. I know I am asking you for a little bit more of favor if you share some joys from my “last year” experience.

So, if that’s alright with you. Consider voting Abit for Steem Witness and make my day. A day when I first met “last year”. Here is how.

Abit just dropped out of Top 20 lately and I don’t have any clue of why. Maybe there are Whale politics. Maybe this is due to the Experiment he led a while ago. Maybe just because people happened to vote for those in front of him more. I don’t know and I won’t try to figure it out. I am not here to tell you that with such voting it will do good to the community. Only good to me. Thus a favor. And I am not returning it because there are too many of you. Hey! I just saw two words ok? 

Thanks for reading guys! :)

Remember, this post is mainly about witnessing “last year”. Don’t need to vote whoever witness if you don’t find this post creating value for this platform. You are mean. Do you know that? But I am only joking. lol.

I hope the reader, including Abit, can understand all the humor in this article except the paragraph that I asked someone to piss off. I tried. Please don’t consider flagging me… @@

This is a 100% SP post so I can get a little more power to make it happen sooner. Also, please note that if my expectation still holds, Abit will upvote this post. But this may not be regarded as voting the post for possible self benefit as Abit’s upvotes are being managed by a curation team. Most of the time, as I know, he doesn’t know who he has voted. He might read this post though, but probably long time after he voted. lol… 

Last, a few words to the CN community members…

各位好啊！這篇不是寫給你們看的，所以我不寫雙語囉。歡迎自己看吧！主要是關於我看到一篇一年前的文章，觸發感概，抒發一下而已。什麼？投票見證人，喔，那也很好，但我知道你們投到連床底下的幾張皺皺的紙鈔都拿出來投了，所以跟你說那麼多也木用的啦！哈哈，放輕鬆，開開玩笑，世界無論如何都美好的… 倒是跟幾位最近剛到這一年前的帖子留話的朋友們說聲抱歉，文章裡吃了你們點豆腐！:) 純粹是為了行文風格所需，若有得罪，在這裡跟你道歉致敬了！敬禮！

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社區熱鬧，人多歡樂多。與此同時，關於什麼可以做，什麼不能做等等，關於規則、關於管理、關於管制、關於自由等等話題，也一定會漸漸出現的。很自然，也很健康的。

我並不想針對最近任何個別文章或評論提出我的看法，我只想從區塊鏈（blockchain）的特性，對大家提出一些提醒。希望對於你未來如何看待這裡，有一些參考價值。

先從標題說起。最近CN新人多，熱鬧非凡，確實是(我所見之)史所未見。人多了，老用戶自然也開始分享、教導一些相關知識或經驗談，即便是老叩叩如我，也從中跟著學習了一些新知識。恰好最近又有人提到一些規則方面的討論，在技術新知的背景下，我腦中浮現這一詞，頓時感到精闢無比啊！說說…

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Transaction as Freedom

區塊鏈上最重要的構成元素，就是Transactions（操作）！包括你點讚、發帖、回帖、領取獎勵、帳務處裡等等，全部定義你帳戶活動的動作，都在裡面了。而各Transactions集結成blocks（區塊），交由各見證人Witnesses的節點（nodes）來進行區塊鏈的驗證工作，確保區塊鏈上的一切紀錄是全體一致的。這就是區塊鏈基本常識了。這也是所謂區塊鏈，或是你的任何操作，不可竄改，也不可刪除的特性了。

那自由呢？Freedom，這詞來自於人類世界，我應該不用多說你也都懂，至少模模糊糊地懂。在區塊鏈技術詞彙裡，沒有自由這一項。什麼？區塊鏈不是號稱最自由的了嗎？當然。區塊鏈不懂自由，但對於使用它的帳戶後面的人類而言，區塊鏈是能實踐自由的美好技術。所以，對於個人的自由，或更精確地說，對於個人在使用區塊鏈平台方面能夠獲得的自由而言，只要你能夠順利執行Transactions，你，就是自由的。因此，Transaction as Freedom，操作即自由。Q.E.D.

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你既不能擁有更多自由，你也沒辦法降低你的自由，你沒辦法降低別人的自由，同樣地，別人也沒辦法降低你的自由，Says the Blockchain。

以發文章跟回覆留言此類言論自由來說，你擁有百分之一百的自由，沒有審查（censorship）的問題，因為沒有人能把你的任何言論從區塊鏈上抹去。當然，有些認知層次的細節，底下再說。

記住這個詞，Transaction as Freedom，這是個新世界的開始。

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我要說的其實都說完了。但對於悟性差一點的，我就繼續說吧！讓我先說一句我在電視上看過的話－

「如果人家點你讚，你哈腰鞠躬，頻頻感謝，稱讚這平台萬歲！那人家踩你一下，你在那裏大聲嚷嚷、呼天搶地，大喊不公平，是在囉嗦什麼鬼啊！」

什麼？沒聽過？那我也忘記來源了。但這句話不無道理，Upvote跟Downvote對於區塊鏈來說，只是一正一反的同類操作，只是這傻技術不知道，人類可能會因此而互相砍殺哪！看人類多複雜… 我看我們還是回火星去吧…

好吧，我承認。確實所有衝突來源，大概都跟Downvote或稱flag，脫不了關係。這不是技術問題，這是人類認知問題。

英文區先前多場戰役都跟flag有關，甚至咱們A神領軍的「大鯨不點讚」實驗（可列入Steem歷史經典大事件之一），就連使用flag來neutralize其他鯨魚的upvotes都能造成許多人不滿（A神辛苦了），可見得flag真的是在一般人認知上不易調適的東西。

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如我所說，upvote/downvote任何人都是你的自由。但即使Steemit.Inc也得列出使用flag的四大理由－你自己去點flag看一下就知道了。這裡面列出的，可以被我們認知為「違反人類使用此blockchain之精神與宗旨」而因此成為某種程度上的「規則」(By Steemit Inc/UI)。其實，嚴格說，這也可以不算規則，因為即便你剽竊了，Blockchain也不會自動踩你，得靠社區裡的用戶自治才行，這是人類事務了。勉強算是規則，但其實真要適用，各人解釋又有不同，誰說了算？這上面也沒法院哪！

有人可能會說：downvote會把我的文章/言論變成灰白色啊！這不就是言論審查了嗎？關於這嘛，我尊重你對於審查的定義。但我只是要說，這是UI的問題，也就是Steemit Inc這家公司怎麼設計它的使用者介面的問題，在blockchain level，沒有任何言論可以被屏蔽。你要是不滿意這個UI，也沒有人能夠阻止你開發一個專門顯示被踩到負值的言論的網站，然後在Steem blockchain上運行的。不錯吧？每個人都可以有自己的尺度與努力的空間。正因為UI就是個中心化的東西，所以你不滿的話，是可以想辦法取代它的。

再來，土匪一點地說，光是依據Disagreement on Rewards，我就「可以」踩遍社區九成有正獎勵的帖，然後說我有所本哪！可以去踩嗎？可以。我會去踩嗎？神經病哪！

但話說我對於踩有時候是不手軟的，前一陣子有個外國哥兒們，用了CN tag在他自己原創文章的全Google翻譯版文章上，我踩了。他四處投訴我，最後我是給他一個原因是”Intentional miscategorized content or Spam”，但念在原創，最後我還是撤踩了，只為他如此努力為自己爭論。

關於CN tag使用，我沒什麼太強烈的意見，我意見沒辦法也不會成為社區共識，其實每個人的意見都是參考用的，不具備什麼效力。但我可以說說我對於CN tag文章的點讚態度－不加中文我不點，但我不會因為這樣而踩。我可以踩嗎？對！你們要說：當然可以！ 很好，有好好看文章。我的文章，你也「可以」踩啊！Nobody can prevent you from doing so.當然，你要考慮的是是否引起我對你不滿而報復，等等… 其實我對於被踩也蠻淡然的，試試看，沒關係的… 真的，試試看啊！

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同樣地，這條也是無關乎區塊鏈，無關乎區塊鏈規則，無關乎區塊鏈律法。區塊鏈是一個機器性規則被限定的叢林世界，要把叢林變烏托邦或是變殺戮戰場，那是在上面操作的所有人的所有行為所共同決定的。你沒辦法一刀砍斃你痛恨的死對頭，但你可以用你所有的downvote跟文字去攻擊他，這是可以的（全文你都要注意所謂「可以」是什麼意思），或者說，可以做到的。

但是，討厭又可愛的人類又來了（說說看，你是AI的話，你會不想把這惱人不符合規矩的野蠻物種人類給wipe out嗎？哈哈），你既然是人，你就處於地球上某個地理範圍內，除非你長年生活在高進住的公海上（那還得看船隻註冊地啊！），否則你多半會受到所謂法律或任何外在、來自他人約束條件。區塊鏈不管你，但這些會管你，因為你無法逃離社會。

你在區塊鏈上的言論，很容易被驗證是你的言論。而言論，並不是百分之一百自由的。限制自由，不一定都是在道理上錯誤的，雖然大部分是。所以，我只是提醒你，也請你保護自己，不是因為區塊鏈世界，或是什麼社區，要處罰、限制你，你要注意你的行為在你的所在地是否適當。這點，只是提醒你。

再次提醒你，不爽的話，你可以踩我的。:D

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噢，我累了。哈哈，賣個關子，這話題下次再說吧！但先預告一下，我並不支持在這裡談論「政治」。當然，所謂不支持，代表我不點讚，通常也不願意參與討論。不過，基本上應該絕對不會踩，我也怕被冠上言論自由箝制者稱號啊，怕怕。你以為我很鄉愿，不敢談政治？呵呵，隨便你猜測。正式答案，請待下回分解囉！[別想用回帖勾我討論，但自由發表意見<–廢話！Says Blockchain]

Lately, there have been a constant influx of Chinese users, especially since the implementation of Hard Fork 19. New comers are unfamiliar with Steemit so several old users in the cn community, while being happy about new friends coming here using the same language, or even the not-so-old users write lots of posts hoping to guide these new members and help them get started (oh, we earn rewards too, as always). 

There are all kinds of helping posts - like @oflyhigh offers a lot of technical knowledge regarding the functioning of the Steem blockchain and others write about like survival guidance from their respective experiences here. Meanwhile, there are also some discussions on the rules of the cn community, if there is really any.

While also learning something new with my new friends together (mostly at technical level), when I saw the discussion on rules, a term comes to my mind - Transaction as Freedom. Well, I cannot get rid of this term so the only way to get rid of it is to write a blog about it. But apologies to the English readers, I only have time to write a Chinese version as this topic is much more difficult to convey than me going to a hot spring and having fun. Hope you understand.

Still, I think this term itself explains most of what I want to say - A transaction on the Steem blockchain is the freedom that you, as a blockchain participant, are guaranteed. No more, no less. No one can take it from you nor can you take it away from others. Not even a downvote, ladies and gentlemen. Not even a downvote.

image credits - from pixabay with the first image slighted modified by the author

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加碼演出－ @catwomanteresa: 所以，Bandwidth會限制言論自由囉？ (d:圖借用一下哪^^，卸卸妮)

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Today I am gonna recommend an interesting Steem gadget to you that has been around for a while but I did not know until recently. As so many new comers arrive lately, I think it’s time for me to share this fun and useful tool with you.

This tool has a formidable name “Dead Followers”. It is created by @mynameisbrian, who is a very famous comics artist and successful blogger on Steemit. I did not know that he can develop APPs! Thanks Brian for all the fun and the convenience you bring us!

哈哈！今天跟大家介紹一個Steem生態系裡面一個非常有趣的小App工具，叫做”Dead Followers”！聽起來很驚悚吧！這個App已經存在蠻久了，但我是前一陣子才知道的，剛好最近很多新用戶，就一直想分享一下這有趣卻也實用的小工具。這款App是由 @mynameisbrian所製作。大家可能不知道，他可是Steemit上幾乎是最有名的漫畫家了喔，內容超好笑的，要不是知道這工具，我還不知道他也是developer呢！謝謝他為這平台帶來歡樂與便利！也請大家多多關注他囉！

Actually there are so many tools that have been developed for the Steem ecosystem and most of the time users don’t fully utilize them because of unawareness of their existence. Let me show you again. Find the menu icon at the top right corner of your Steemit page and click it and show all options.

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新用戶常常不知道其實有許多為Steem開發的工具，可以提供各位在這裡玩耍更多便利性，所以今天我就帶著你們走一下。請找到Steemit頁面右上方的下拉選單icon，然後點擊之。

Welcome to the wonderful world of SteemTools.Com! Don’t be shy and try them all! :) But before you do, let’s explore what “Dead Followers” can offer! Find it among this sea of tools.

歡迎來到SteemTools.Com！哇！好多工具可以用哪！別客氣，全都試試看！但是先別走開，我們今天先說說這個有趣的”Dead Followers”能給你什麼服務吧！

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Click to go to the “Dead Followers” website - http://steemit.deadfollowers.info/ and you are ready to check the following status of any account, not only yours, yeah! It’s a transparent platform remember!? Ok. Now you know that this site gives you a sketch of the status of your followers! By Dead it means being inactive for more than one month. So theoretically you can still save them from death by asking them to come back and post/comment! LOL… You can try your account but I will show you mine and a few users from the cn community.

找到後點擊網址，就可以到達”Dead Followers”的網站 - http://steemit.deadfollowers.info/ 很簡潔。你就可以開始玩了！輸入任何帳戶名稱，就可以知道此帳戶的粉絲們（followers）的活躍情況。Dead的意思是超過一個月以上不活躍，所以，想要你的死亡粉絲們起死回生的話也是有可能的喔，只要你找得到他們，請他們回來發發文章或回回帖，馬上就變成活粉絲了喔！呵呵！在你開始玩之前，我把自己跟幾位CN區的大咖（我只是中咖）的數據列出來瞧瞧！

For @deanliu , me, …. 

先看 CN區第一美女 老劉我的吧！計算結果 …. @$%&$%$&#….

活粉比率：85.85%！ <— Ratio of alive followers… Not too bad actually! :D

哇！好高的啦，榮幸榮幸！總粉數1548，死了219個… 這成績還行吧？感謝我的父母，感謝….. 

You can even see the death list under the numbers… 

你還可以往下看到死亡粉絲名單… 啊~~ 怎麼有他？

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Now, the top of the top Steemit blogger @sweetsssj …

看看至高無上的標竿，甜心大美女，情況如何？

活粉比率：86.80%！ <— Ratio of alive followers… A great achievement considering her HUGE total fan base of 8,256!! Really incredible!! Well done Sweetsssj!! 

甜心實在是太強了！她的粉絲群總量有8,256個！8,256個！可是活粉比率還是超越我不少啊！沒話說！永遠的領頭羊！我們以你為榮啊！

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Next, also a top blogger and also the sweetheart of the platform @rea …

看看另一位美女博客，情況如何？說不定我有點機會超越她，畢竟她發文頻率低一點嘛！:P

活粉比率：88.90%！ <— Ratio of alive followers… Gee!! Almost 90%! Fantastic job! @rea! 

哇哇哇，這位更強大了，粉絲群是精兵啊，高活粉，廣告商要想投放廣告，除了甜心人氣旺，Rea也是潛在好投資啊！廣告效度會提高不少的。看來我得找更弱的對手才行啊，這算盤打錯了

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Maybe I should get myself a weaker opponent… I will try @oflyhigh … A computer geek, not many travel or cuisine posts, I think I can beat him easily…

對了！找找那個只會寫程序，沒有全球美麗景點到處跑，又不吃好東西的，O宅嬸！想來我必勝無疑了！哈哈哈！

活粉比率：87.85%！ <— Ratio of alive followers… Well… fine. I am the worst. Thank you… :~ LOL 

啥麼？她也贏我？憑什麼？一定是最近來太多宅男了啦！可惡啊！不甘心啊！~ 好吧！阿Q地說，我粉絲比她多，我還是贏了…. 是嗎？別走啊！各位粉絲，我認輸，我認輸了啦~~

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Okay!  That’s about it. Actually you may also try other definitions of “Death” like changing posting to voting or changing inactive period among 1-4 months… If we are to have advertisement for individual bloggers, this tool will be very handy and useful! Thanks for watching and as a token of appreciation, 20% of SBDs from this post will go to Brian for creating this interesting tool for us. Thanks Brian!

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哈哈！好玩嗎？以上橋段只為博君一笑，請勿認真啊！粉絲可以選你，你不能選粉絲，粉絲死活 干你何事 你也無法控制，對吧！好好經營回應你的粉絲，才是最重要的！對了，還是說一下，所謂Dead的定義是可以改的，可以改post為vote，或是改不活躍時間長度為1-4個月之內… 好好去玩玩吧！本文章20%的SBD收入將致贈本App製作者Brian，感謝他創造這個有趣的工具，或許未來有廣告商時，會變成一個很重要的工具喔！

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某日午後，外出返回公司途中，經過一處工地。

那是一棟全新建造的辦公大樓（寫字樓），應該已經接近完工，建築物外牆的鷹架已經拆除大半，但仍四處散落著沾著塵土的零碎建材。

午後三點多，我從離公司最近的捷運出口出來，得走15分鐘才能到辦公室，這棟新建的辦公大樓，就離我們不遠。這是個炎熱的夏日午後，各地溫度屢創新高，即便中午過後，曾經短暫下了一陣氣勢磅礡的雷雨，空氣中只多了潮濕氣息，氣溫卻不見下滑的跡象。所以，走到那兒時，我已經揮汗如雨，好在那天下午回辦公室後應該沒什麼事了，我心裡盤算著就用這時間寫篇文章吧，因此在路上走著時，邊想著該寫什麼，也就不覺得太熱了。

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思緒正進行到第三段文字，眼前出現兩個工人，一男一女。中年男性工人身材矮胖，皮膚黝黑，赤裸上半身，手裡拿了把電鑽；女性工人應該也是中年，但頭戴斗笠，臉跟身體都用布包纏起來，穿著雨鞋，看不出年紀。他們倆一前一後，來到一處工地路邊的積水旁打量著，我看到出於好奇所以就在轉角停下來，以滑手機為掩護，看看他們要幹嘛… 也沒什麼，應該是被指派得要解決這積水問題。我自己猜測，鷹架拆除，恐怕是快驗收了；大雨突襲，只怕工程施工略有不良造成積水；因此，土法煉鋼，能怎麼補救就試試看，挖個洞什麼的… 先過了驗收再說。

合理的猜測。我心裡嘀咕。所以這大叔開始腳涉入黃澄澄的水中，用電鑽往水底某處鑽去，可能是位大媽的女工人，則在他身後看著，拉著電線準備支援之類的。聲音太大了，於是我經過他們身後，繼續走我的路，留下隆隆電鑽聲在身後擴大、回盪…

後來，我再也沒辦法專心繼續我原先在想的文字了。這五分鐘路程裡，這兩位工人的身影與眼神，一直環繞在我心頭上，無法迴避。

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打從讀書時代，一直到進入社會，一直到深入社會。我從來沒有做過以勞力換取工資的工作，一次都沒有。這裡勞力說的當然是體力勞動類，不包括腦力活的。書上倒是讀過許多，諸如揮汗播種、歡喜收割的農夫們，礦場裡挑礦的礦工們，悶熱廚房裡煙燻水燙的廚子們，寒風中豔陽下維持街道整潔的清潔工人們… 這些事情我也不是完全沒做過，但為了金錢，從來沒有。

書讀得不差，一路讀上去了，就連學生時代的工作，都是坐著上工的：家教課、研究助理、兼職翻譯等等… 我都做過，沒有一個工作，需要留一滴汗。因此我總對於以體力勞動付出，而換取金錢收入的人或工作，有一種莫名的敬佩與浪漫幻想。每每，我總覺得我們這種冷氣房裡的工作，都不是「真正的」工作，類似於一種死後上天堂，你的人生履歷上只准填上體力勞動的工作，否則你就是個米蟲之類的概念。

然而這並不是資本主義的邏輯。管你流不流汗呢！能夠創造「價值」（資本主義美化價格的裝飾說法），你就有價值，跟流汗有啥P關係！那些上世紀的馬克思遺毒，省省吧！很多人也這麼信了，我也沒說他們錯，連我也信了，因為信了舒服點。

對！我們值得這份工資，我們為社會創造了價值，為人類生活做出了邊際的、但仍是偉大的貢獻！

「因為你值得。」我不禁想起這句流傳很廣的化妝品廣告台詞…

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其實，我不知道。我們真的值得嗎？在這虛幻的平台上，寫寫文字東指西罵，哭北笑南，然後得到金錢獎勵？我們值得嗎？問問。

那兩位工作了大半天，神情已經木然，汗水繼續流著的工人大叔大嬸，肯定是無法理解我們的吧！他們可能會，帶著一絲自己人生沒辦法好好念書所以沒有出息所以不懂人世間高級事務的自卑感，客氣地說「哎呀！我們沒念過多少書，不懂這些啦！你們都很厲害！」如果我可以訪問他們的話。

區塊鏈他媽的是跟他們所理解與習慣的生活有他媽的幾百光年的距離啊！而我們比較高級，「因為你值得」是嗎？

看到大叔黝黑的皮膚，我聯想不到地中海跟加勒比海，只想到皮膚癌跟紫外線。看到大嬸面巾下疲勞的眼神，我聯想不到Attention Economy。不需要上下三千年，此時此地，我們身邊的市井生活裡，就有平行時空－因為他得值，而因為你…值得。

因為他「得值」，所以他得用生命去換收入，否則他的生命以及他身邊人的生命，將落入痛苦。你可以說，這年頭，體力活賺得多，對也不對。

因為你值得，所以你動動腦，卡卡位，在這龐大的系統裡，總有許多暗黑的奶與蜜之地，被一個個山寨頭子盤據。這種你或我，總會有光鮮亮麗的名號或藉口－總監、特助、高端科技、慈善基金…

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我不願意回到共產主義萬歲，勞動人民萬歲這另一種落後的結論上去。我也無意抹煞資本主義運作下社會的優點。這畢竟不是一篇論理文章。這只是我人生的一刻。

軟弱如我，沒有辦法真的放下”值得”的工作，去浪漫地當一個流汗的”得值”的工人（皮膚癌？我才不要咧！)。貪婪如我，還在這裡呼喊著這是下世代的新興社群平台。事實是，我也不知道這世界，真正地，是怎麼了。

在這一刻，我只能選擇，讓這兩位進入我的文章裡，讓這一刻成為某種的小永恆。從而依靠他們給我一點點的救贖，或許能讓我，稍微些許更一點點的…

值得。

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[MYOT - Make Your Own Toys!] is my series focusing on making toys for small kids with daily life materials, a.k.a trash, that every parent can do it without any skills. Love is needed though. It costs nothing but your time and you can do it with your kids, making it a special time for you. Besides, it’s green earth compatible and you might even blog your experience here and earn! Use #myot tag so we can all share your fun!

[MYOT 自製玩具系列] 是我早期發過幾次的系列，趁著CN區最近比較常聊親子話題，我也藉此再次來推銷一下這個系列。基本上，就是自己利用生活中的材料（即將變垃圾），替小朋友做玩具。你會發現，小小孩們，不需要昂貴的玩具，需要的是父母的陪伴與一起玩！所以，不花錢，只花時間，親子共做還可以成為quality time！更妙的是，符合環保愛地球，甚至可以放上Steem來分享喔！歡迎使用 #myot 標籤，大家一起手作愛心玩具吧！

Grab some empty tissue boxes and prepare these tools. Original boxes are like the right-hand side one. Cut all boxes like the left ones with scissors.

準備好幾個空的面紙盒，還有一些工具。右手邊的盒子是原貌，用剪刀把所有盒子剪成左手邊的樣子。

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Use a knife to cut open some rectangle holes on respective boxes. You will see their functions later.

使用美工刀將紙盒開幾個正方形的洞，等一會兒就可以看到他們的作用了。 

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For the hole on the red box, I did not cut it out but leaves one side to make it a ‘door’. See the image and you will get it.

這個紅色盒子的洞我留下一邊未剪，讓它變成個有門的洞！增加趣味！

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Next, time to glue all boxes together, Architect! I use double-sided tape for this purpose.

接下來就是要把箱子們組合起來了，發揮你的創意吧！我用的是雙面膠帶。

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TaDa !! There you go! A magnificent paper box 2-story house for whatever whoever your kids prefer!! Now you can see why I cut three holes… So the dwellers can move between boxes or outside. Variety is the key to make it fun!

歡迎蒞臨鑑賞，兩層樓洋房！任何小型玩具都可以入住！現在可以看到那些洞的功能啦，可以讓“住戶們”更自由進出玩樂！總之，有變化才好玩，有變化，代表你對他的愛！  

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WOW!! Now we have so many guests and so many “kinds” of guest, lol, from all around the toy world coming to this STEEM FUN House!! WooHoo~~~~ Feel free to take a look around the house!! :)

哇！人氣飆升！喔，不是，是“玩”氣飆升！車子、火車、人偶，通通都來了！有住戶以後，這 STEEM FUN House 是不是活潑多了呢？歡迎四處看看！

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My son even made two Lego beds for his dear Lego little buddies - one on top of the roof and one in the box.

我兒子還替他兩個小人偶做了兩個樂高床，一個放在屋頂上，一個放在房間裡。：）

He looks pretty satisfied with today’s MYOT! Sweet! 

他看起來很滿意今天的MYOT自製紙房子！值了！

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This previous MYOT is pretty great too! Have a look! 好久以前MYOT做的釣魚組，也很棒喔！：）

MYOT - Make Your Own Toys for your kids! This time it’s the Fishing Set!

This one also utilizes tissue box. See how important they are? Keep them! 這一篇MYOT也是用面紙盒，你看看，面紙盒多好用！下次別丟了喔！

MYOT - Make Your Own Toys for your kids! Let’s make a Concentration/Memory game from a tissue box!!

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朋友們，這次我們來到北投，台北日式溫泉的知名景點。離臺北市區只要搭乘地鐵30分鐘，馬上就可以來到這綠意盎然，方便熱鬧卻又鬧中取靜的，讓你身心靈放鬆的地方。我們幾週前去的。是的！這麼熱的夏天泡湯？傻啦，夏天才便宜嘛！反正有冷氣，就跟你夏天吃火鍋，冬天吃冰一樣，沒有問題的啦！

看看飯店房間先！這間屬於中上價位水準，不到五星，甚至勉強四星可能都不到。但也曾經輝煌，只是舊了。窗戶很大，景觀很綠，一切都可以。

When I met Steem an year ago, I feel that its logo looks so familiar and later on I realized … it’s like the logo of hot springs only without a circle underneath. Finally today I have the opportunity to connect both … a hot spring experience on Steem blockchain!! Woohoo~~~ 

My wife and I went for a little get away weeks ago to Beitou, a suburban Taipei district famous for its hot spring dating back to the Japanese colonial times hundred year ago… You only need to take subway for around 30 minutes from downtown Taipei and you can get away from your busy city life in this place with large stripe of green woods, history, hot steamy spring and many good food! Take a look of our hotel room! This one is a slightly better than average hotel whose location is very very good. The room is quite alright… With a large window and a park-side view.

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Look closer… Basically, it has everything a hotel room should have. A little bit of Japanese style of course as Beitou’s hot spring was developed during Japanese times.

仔細看看吧！該有的都有，略帶日式風格，但不是太重。北投溫泉就是日本殖民時期開發的。

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雖然不是五星級，但服務還行。要冰塊也會送，免費的當然。窗前擺的就不是免費的囉！是我們入住前去採買的，這是住飯店的必殺技之一啊！

It’s not 5-star hotel. But they bring ice to your room if you ask. Free of course. Oh, those in front of the window aren’t free - we brought them here… did some shopping before we checked in! 

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或許該先到附近環境看一下，再來泡湯吧！這大廳裡擺著日本風味的裝飾，我也搞不清楚，反正蠻好看的。

Maybe I should introduce the bigger environment instead of just the room before I show you the HOT SPRING!! Let’s go. The lobby with some Japanese style installation art? Looking good though… 

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Locality map kinda cute. 地圖可愛吧？

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北投公園就在對面！見過國父孫文先生了！：）

Beitou park just opposite to the hotel. Meet the man who overthrew the old empire one hundred year ago.

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北投圖書館，具國際知名度的綠建築，要不是禁止在內部拍攝，我一定拍一堆照片來給大家看的。

Beitou Public Library, an internationally renown green building. Very very beautiful but they do not allow taking photos inside so I did not have any inside photos.

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幾步之遙，超市，便利店，小吃店，餐廳，應有盡有，真是天堂啊！@@

One minute walk and you can have supermarkets, convenience stores and lots of great eating places… Paradise!! @@

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準備好泡湯了嗎？想想那地底幾千公尺湧上來的火山之泉，裡頭有多少人體需要的珍貴元素？呵呵，你不能泡，只能看看過癮，下次自己來吧！

Are you ready to soak yourself in a tub of hot underground mineral H2O? Follow me… Oops! Sorry, you will have to come here to enjoy it… for now, take a look but no one is inside of course… :)  

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最後，分享這兩張照片。這裡拍的。下次再說說他們的故事囉！所以，下回分曉，請勿錯過！

Last,… let me share with you two photos I took inside this room. I will tell you the story of these two babies in the future… So, stay tuned…. 

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