Your introductory piece may be worth a $100 bucks to the network at this moment. If you were to write this once there are 10,000 piece of content being published every day then it would probably be much harder to get $100 for it. But beta is beta and the voting power hasn't been distributed yet to a large enough crowd...so a few whale voting you up moves to needle fast! After July 4th, on the payday of "Independence Day" things will change a bit on that front.

Gotta strike gold hard when you realize you have a first mover advantage. ;-)