that's partially correct. If you have 1 million followers on facebook, and half a brain, you can continue providing useful content to your followers so as not to lose them, and once in a while SELL something. And make thousands. (While facebook makes tens of thousands off ads people see while commenting your posts...)

also, while we shouldn't complain about other's success, seeing a MEME with no content get $800 on steemit is not very encouraging to people who want to write truly engaging words...

The squeaky wheel gets the grease - as long as the complaints have a valid, logical argument, they should be heard.

I do agree with you though, there should not be any jealous monkey business towards true value creators!