Great question. I have the same concern. If you create quality content and keep it updated, the platform and the reader wins. You can bring in organic traffic from the search engines and outside referrals, indefinitely.

But if you can't keep getting paid for that quality content, you're destroying the incentive to create quality content in the first place. You're going to have a race to the bottom to create the largest number of low-quality posts of only immediate, and not lasting, impact.

Given that this platform is more like Medium than Reddit or Facebook, this is a question that merits further study and discussion.

Imagine a Steemit full of the highest-quality, unique, long-form content that is regularly updated, that ranks highest in the search engines for a range of terms and that people are organically linking to. That's an online endpoint that will bring new people and investment in over and over again.

That's got to be worth more than yesterday's recycled memes.

Love this community!