I completely agree with you about the "good stuff" being easier to find now. The idiots who throw up one crappy phone photo of some piece of total tripe and then bid-bot it for $150 don't even have the ambition for that any more.

In the same way hard times can show you "who your real friends are" -- these lean times on Steemit can show you who your real colleagues are ... the people who love what they do, who take pride in their content, who keep supporting and curating the good stuff they find, and who want to see Steemit succeed because it is such a fabulous concept -- those people are still around. Still posting. Still voting. Still determined to make it through to the next upswing -- which, if history holds, will be even more dazzling than the last.

Bitcoin didn't start out at $6000+. @shadowspub wrote that she remembers when Steem went down to $.07 a while after she joined. As I said to her the other day, I keep telling myself they can't close the place down if enough of us refuse to leave.

So lock arms and dig in. There are better days coming.