I believe that if people are lured into coming to this platform with dollar signs in their eyes, they will quickly become discouraged and leave. There is NOTHING worse for steem's image than a disgruntled person. They will spread the word about everything they perceive is WRONG with Steem and bad news travels fast. It is far better to encourage people to come for any of the other reasons and then have them be pleasantly surprised at earning a bit of extra income as a bonus! I agree with the OP's ideas and therefore voted for the post.