RE: THE ANOMOLY OF THE $15,000 STEEMIT POST
than just offering the negligible chance of earning a living from creating and curating content.
Negligible? No.
Dollar vigilante may be one case (and there are perhaps 15-20 cases that hit great rewards) that got big rewards from the get go, but you have to remember there are developing countries out there where the basic salary for a month is near 200-300$.
If you can make that from posting content, then you are making a living. Now, for developed-world standards 200 and 300$ won't cut it, but it's still more than what you'd be making on blogspot.
I had a blogspot on Google a few years ago. It had something like a couple million views. Now the ads that it generated over the time I had it, didn't even exceed the 70 euro threshold that Google required before sending a cheque - so I never got a dime. This is insane. And we are talking about >200.000 words of content.
Steemit on the other hand has been infinitely better.
$300 a month seems like a dim prospect to me. In fact it seems to be getting dimmer as time goes by. Used to be my rewards were measured in dollars (sometimes tens of dollars, on rare occasions a hundred dollars) but now it is just mere cents. Is this because my writing ability has taken a drastic turn for the worse or is it just a case of there being much more competition now and subsequently less chance of attracting viewers with enough steempower to make my posts worth a damn? I am going to assume it is the latter.
But you are right in saying even one cent is infinitely better than zilch:)
Yeah, more people, more posts, more competition, means less concentrated focus on the former smaller pool of users. We have to create even more attractive content to target whale LOL. We gotta sell out! j/k... I feel ya though.