There's an entertaining piece here on the vice of instant gratification http://waitbutwhy.com/2013/10/why-procrastinators-procrastinate.html

nevertheless... I have no sense of any instant gratification here on steemit myself - perhaps a factor of being a so called minow, but yet to see what all the fuss is about unless we are counting $0.0006 per week. (I believe in the blockchain though and figured out how to purchase a little steem power - tootoot!)