Thank you for sharing your honest opinion. I wanted to upvote your content as well as leave my thoughts !! The following quote is from you '' The fact is that we're all here to make money, get rewarded for our efforts and use this platform to improve our lives and those around us basically trumps most other intentions of using this platform.'' Is true for me . I just started to hear about a lot of good things from Steem. I heard that you could participate in a community even if you were not a content creator. But be rewarded for your efforts of loving to read research and learn. At the same time using your reputation and steam power to vote content you agreed with. I was drawn to the freedom and flexibility that steem provided because I need to make a living in a flexible way. While raising my three young children. So even though I was initially drawn to the site to be able to earn doing something I love having an opinion on content while raising my children. I choose to follow individual content providers that I share an intellectual view with! And so I can continue to be involved and learn while earning for being reliable ! Again thank you for your great article and your honesty and I will be following you and up voting any content which I share beliefs in. When I vote an article that I agree with i use 100% of my voting power. Being that I am now I think this is the correct thing to do but I do it because I agree with content.Looking forward to more of your content creation. Thanks