The reply to you:

I will tell people you can still earn more of Steem than you are likely to get elsewhere.

It is not true, in the sense that any creator of a post who has an SP of under...what? $2,000, is not likely to make any money. Making money, the term, is relative. Not even the members who are very poor are going to bother if all they can earn is a few steem cents, with a total of one US ollar per week or per month. That is not earning money, just the cost of web connection becomes an expense that reduces what we earn to negative figures. For the majority, if we are to pay, then we might as well do something fun and play a game or watch a movie...elsewhere.

Do not forget that if by accident you DO earn some money, with the big boys deciding to finance Flagging, you'll soon be saying bye-bye to your tiny income stream. You do not have to do anything wrong, as they can and do flag just because they feel like it.

All those 'socialists' who are depending on our good (or submissive) natures are dreaming. We are not as stupid as they seem to think we are; many have awoken. Only the very poor and desperate are still unaware. Be interesting to see how much money they make from them, since their SP, in many cases, is so low they cannot post more often than once a week.

By the way, we are not earning 50% of what others awarded us, we are only getting the 43% - and as we are told, if your earnings are under 20STEEM, you are further reduced and only backed if you can earn over 20STEEM.

Who earns over? The dolphins and whales - in other words, the minority.

I have therefore unticked most of my witnesses - since the top 20 showed us they voted for what earns THEM more, not for us. Unticking does not help if it is just me...plus, we need to vote for witnesses who are not in the top 30 or so. Get them up into the top 20 and that becomes a game changer - otherwise, there is nothing we can do. Just walk away, or Decline Payout on our posts so that that fat cats cannot curate and earn from us.