without bid-bots if you come into this place with less than a few $10k you can beg for handouts and try to write a stephen king novel every week and still be old and grey before you're worth anything, yea, definite YEA, its not even about the roi, its about the growth, your SP grows if you invest, it grows more than it would, which means your vote value increases
which means YOU grow, by investing in yourself even if no one else would so eventually you can actually DO something :)
yea, definite YEA ! yes yes yes yes yes !
It's certainly hard to grow on here. Its extremely hard to grow without an initial investment. It can be done but its not the norm. Steemit is a game where most are more interested in leveling themselves up then helping others level up.
well i think that's a sound strategy :) its kinda hard to help others up if you have a vote at 0.0025 at the start , you can't even vote yourself up over dust treshold like that. That's why i sometimes get the impression some of the "whales" like their position as benevolent enlightened content dictaor a bit too much, you know :"kiss the pope's ring and repent", lol
and all will be well, OR ELSE, ... or else try crawling from the mud by yourself, right ? a few hundred at the very least and a certain level of interaction unless you got 50 years time or unless you know someone who will just delegate you a few thousand SP right off the bat, all too true , sounds a bit like that old legend on how the "1%" holds all the money, a tale from a distant time in a galaxy far, far away ;-)
then again ... as someone here once said to me at the start when i was under content-nazi flag fire and downvote carpet bombing
"you gotta see the game for what it is " :D
If everyone was to use that strategy then no-one would grow.