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And how might one make money from having STEEM? Is it free market capitalism just with naughts and ones?

By investing in Steem Power so you can get additional Steem by voting yourself.

The only real revenue source of Steemit community is Steem Dollars burning for promoting posts, but amounts are very low. See https://steemd.com/@null/

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