There are many benefits to Steemit, but many people will be attracted to the earning side and be disappoint when it only earns a few penny's or dollars then give up because they were expecting great amounts, but forget the people that are earning large amounts have been here mostly from the beginning or have a huge following that took years to capture. It's like anything in life you need to keep going and learning, when your at school or first getting a job you don't know much but you learn and get better and learn more. With Steemit you can learn and interact with people and subjects you normally would have to spend hours scouring the internet to still come up short, here you have many different people from around the world to learn different things that can in turn can earn you a lifestyle from living sustainable or crytpo or other ideas might pop out.