You are right about that when you say "you need to care about something other than yourself". It is a bit hard to believe in that when it comes to this platform as I find a lot of the members here are hoping to gain monetary compensation for their efforts. This seems to be the driving force behind using this platform. I haven't but posted one post so far and have been mostly resteeming and commenting but recently I have noticed people offering resteeming services for a price! The unfairness pushes you to choose either to 1) quit this platform altogether 2) follow others and try to get the most I can get with some kind of strategy (resteeming services, lots of short and meaningless comments, upvotes to those who upvotes you, etc) 3) keep the faith and stick with it hoping there will be more of the good people who will follow... but is that really realistic, especially when nothing seems to be done about people who post content that should not be considered for any value whatsoever. How do we feel right about the lack of fairness?
you are experiencing what so many of are going through. Almost like the voice of Steemit.
My only recommendation is to just do the right thing and have faith and it will all work out.
Do we know when?
Nope. but at least we know it will happen.
Real, positive change is coming, just be patient a little bit more longer.
Namaste :)