The way it works is the more money you have in your steem account the more money your upvotes pay. There are accounts that sell their upvotes. For example if I had 50,000 in my steem account and I upvoted you, you would get a few dollars. Most of us dont have a lot of money in steem yet so the people that do sell their upvotes to other people. For me the last few posts I paid to have a person with a lot of money in their account upvote my post.
The way it works is the more money you have in your steem account the more money your upvotes pay. There are accounts that sell their upvotes. For example if I had 50,000 in my steem account and I upvoted you, you would get a few dollars. Most of us dont have a lot of money in steem yet so the people that do sell their upvotes to other people. For me the last few posts I paid to have a person with a lot of money in their account upvote my post.