I understand it's not fun for everyone. People put a lot of effort into posts and don't always get much Steem Dollars. Ideally, there will be many new ways to get Steem Dollars once the Steem Market is in place an you can always use money you earn from providing useful services to buy Steem Power.

But if Blogging is the New Mining then it's more like a casino. Bitcoin mining was like that. You could mine and mine and not be guaranteed to find a block.