Captivating post. You expressed very well what many steemers here feel. Your post ends positive, means hard work will pay at the end. The thing is, even if you don't much care about personal steem grow, with our contribution we feed the big capitalist pyramid. There is, like in real life, only one option if you can't live with that: leaving. BUT here as in real life you have a graet community and can learn a lot here ...