I think the most important thing to keep in mind about post payouts (and the specific amounts being payed) is that your earnings are deceptive in the sense they don't factor in the growth of the value of STEEM! Imagine you were paid $0.10 worth of bitcoin per hour in 2010 everyone would tell you it's obviously a waste of time to make that amount of money, and then a few years later you're a millionaire because it's value had increased. In the same kind of interface it would tell you a post had earned $0.10 when in reality it had earned much more. This is especially important for new users to keep in mind before getting discouraged at the amounts they are gaining, it may not look like much now but just keep going and eventually it could be much higher than you expect.