What unique content are you bringing? Are you paying attention to the tides and figuring out how you can increase your value? Are you improving your skills? Networking? Buying in or at least Holding? Relentlessly grinding? Commenting? Building Tools? If you are just posting your work and waiting to be discovered, you better hope your work is incredible.

I truly agree with you. The system is competitive it's all about the survival of the fittest. The question we should be asking ourselves is how fit are we to survive?
We should try to devise a means to earn and get to the top.
Lovely write up.