Aforementioned, this is hypothetical best case scenario, of how can I get to go full time to make a living in Steem blockchain.

As a non invested Steemian, I'd like to emphasize going in to rub whale skin isn't really easy. Moreover, it takes time to generate a good piece of article. It's takes hours to come up with an article that is possibly to earn an upvote or two. Added with current situation of vote buying, the amount of attention has been heavily abused and lopsided.

Let's forget about all that for now. Talk about the current status and what it takes to get there. Thankful that we have our local community support. May not be much of a help, but at least there's something there. My post payout if not being upvoted by some dApp community support, purely on followers upvote, I can only fetch about 0.70 at current Steem price.

In a day, I usually produce 2 posts from two different dApps. Both gave me around 2$ worth of upvote, added with community support, in a day I can fetch about 7$ worth of reward. If taken away the curation, that's about 5$. And half of then need to go SP, what left for me is about 2.5SBD.

Looking at the rate, clearly I can't go financially free by writing alone. So I go video content also. And also do workout app. Indeed more post more payout. I managed to boost my payout up to 10$ a day. Does that mean I can now rely on Steem alone and be financially free?

Not only I can't. Now I have problem. Clearly it takes more time for me to prepare a quality post. Video needs time for editing. Workout app, needs me to workout, and workout takes time. Basically other than my day job, I felt like extra 12 hours at the screen just to make a few bucks more. And worst is, I start to lose followers.

Take a step back, going the volume really makes me disoriented and putting my thoughts scattered everywhere. Not only it affect my content quality, the post layout has been overly crowded, my followers having hard time to find what they like to read.

Sometimes, financially free may not be increasing the output, it could be the input too huge. Haven't I thought of reducing my daily expanses? Is it possible for me to live another day with less good food? Can I choose to use public transport instead of driving? There are a lot of probabilities I can try.

For now, I'm thankful for a 2 communities who allowed me to earn some extra Steems for being their curator. I'm still pretty sure there's more opportunities available to grab, but I need to be very careful to select in order to preserve my follower. As for financially free by creating content in Steem blockchain, I think it's still premature to say we can. Even whales who have hundreds of thousands of SP couldn't make enough for their monthly expanses.

If there's this day that Steem value hit 200$, I probably wouldn't worry too much. Those SBD payouts, I can straightaway send them off to reinvest, and whatever balance I can invest them back into myself. So I can live free from day job and create more and better quality content instead of hurting my followers voting power.

Go by quality, forget about the quantity.