And before that was:

"The more competitive the market becomes, the more difficult (higher quality or quantity) it becomes to earn the same payout.... Every vesting user casts their votes on who did the best work and at the end of the day the available money for that day is divided proportional to the votes such that everyone with even one net positive vote gets something."
~ Steem WhitePaper, pg. 16

Markets work through the quality of products, or popularity, or other factors. Anyways people can read it. I like to upvote a certain level of effort or quality in content, not copy/paste and easy posts to try to get rewards. Were you here in August when I wrote that? There was a lot more people posting crap compared to now. But nice try to make me look like some bad guy lol