@anarcho-andrei is right, Jerry Banfield is pretty much the worst example of a person to take an advice :P

I agree though that the whole environment is full of abuse and there way too many people that have money as number 1 priority and will do (and do) everything to make more even if it cost the others and thus the platform!

My "logic" because i am quite sometime here is to just make my regular posts (which i think a lot of them are underpaid, if a whale posted the exact same ones will earn 20 times more and if a new user probably 0 :P )and interact with the ones i followed who i handpicked them and try to engage with them as much as possible.

Nowadays it seems more like an everyday thing and a hobby, like reading my friends "news" and posting whatever comes to my head. I do care about the money aspect cause everyone came for this too but it's not my priority otherwise i will be off like Jerry!

I tend to write long comments :P but to summarize it, try seeing it more like a hobby, find people to follow that you truly love their posts and that you gonna interact with and my true problems with Steemit lie both with how hard the interaction is given the current interface, the need of an older post reward system and also that basically nobody manually checks for new content!