To me this website offers all possible kinds of motivation which other websites would offer + the ability of having a pay-off.

I guess many people indeed try to write on steemit with the object of getting a pay-off. This causes many of them to write what they think the wales will vote on, but I wonder whether does people would care to write for different reasons.

If you are not interested in the money, and feel motivated by self-realisation, than go right ahead. I feel as if many people do that. I recently wrote a post about Thoreau, it was good fun, I learned a bit while producing the post, and in the end I got 7 votes, (resulting in 0,00$) which I didn't really care about.

I do not see why people who would be willing to put good content online on a platform where payment does not exist would be discouraged from doing in here because they do not make a lot of money... If you would do it for free on Reddit, why not do it for here with a small chance of making a lot money (and almost every quality post gets upvotes (from people, not bots) so if self realisation is what people are after I think they will get what they want...