Thank you for commenting and yeah all of us share your frustration on some level. Everyone ends up with some expectation in their head of what their post should make. If I think a post should get $10 and it gets $3 then I'm upset but someone else Might be thinking they just want $1 on each post and they would be happy.

You have to understand that there are different levels of investment into this platform. For instance there are people who invested $1000 very early on in 2016 and ended up with hundreds of thousands of dollars and then there are people who have invested hundreds of thousands of dollars and they are upside down on their investment because the price dropped. Then there are content creators who have invested their time so everyone has different skin in the game.

For those who have powered up a lot of money into this platform they can end up having a pressing need to make a gain on their investment and our posts may or may not peak their interest or fall in line with them trying to get a return on their investment.

I hate to say it but as amazing as the STEEM blockchain is the ability to earn money from content creation is more of the bait to drive demand to STEEM so people will buy it.

There aren't very many crypto currencies that actually drive real demand to their coin. STEEM, Siacoin, BitShares to name a few. I would say SmartCash does as well with SmartRewards and SmartNodes. Dash does with the master node system.

The bait can be juicy for some but for others it won't work out and they could end up spending a bunch of time on posts and not make it very far unfortunately just like any economy. A person can get stuck in a dead end job or a career path they didn't intend on.

I do wish you luck and will be sending some upvotes your way.