No Free upvote

After spending around 6 months in Steemit, I have realized that the whole theme of the steemit is to pay for the upvotes, if you want them.
You are not going to get them for free, the good writing stuff works no more. Its only if you pay a whale and he'll upvote you else he's not going to waste his upvote for free.

So either the system is going to crash as there won't be new people and only one that have good steempower here will get money or if anyone wants to be successful, he needs to invest big time in here and buy alot of power but if a person has alot of money to buy steemit, he won't need to be successful, coz he already is(moneywise).

So I think Steemit is going nowhere. Its gonna crash on its on weight with no new users and the older ones just selling their votes for money.