Will communities like Steemit open up new opportunities for content creators to get paid?
There is one thing that will kill Steemit from achieving doing this.
That word is "greed."
Which most importantly starts at the very top. I don't think anyone can predict what will happen, but someday there will be a looking back and history, for now we can only hope for something better than Adsense and google.
True. We've already seen a few issues pop up in the community due to greed, and where there is any form of money, there will always be greed. There will definitely be a lot of trying out of new types of sites using cryptocurrency in the near future, and all we need to do is keep out eyes open to what all is going on. Luckily with the type of open system that crytptocurrency has, the greedy ones are even easier to recognize.