The Steem blockchain distributes roughly $7,000+ (someone help...I don't know what current amount is) per day to the people who participate and contribute to it.

Your information is waaay outdated, I just run a simple script to collect all posts created in last 24 hours( including the ones created few seconds ago that are worth 0) and I got around 21500 posts, with total pending payout value of 213,317.22 SBD! The price of 1 SBD is around $1.49 on steemit's internal market, considering this price, steem distributed around $315,000 only in the last 24 hours. I really didn't expect amount this huge. This is outstanding!