Oh yeah, this is still the easiest way to earn money online by far. You don't have to tell me, it's the new users that need that message.

I just try and see it from a new bloggers point of view on joining steemit. For some reason, earning $1 when someone else earns $30 for the same thing is worse than everyone earning $0 from Facebook. It's really just today's social conditioning working against the sheeple. Everyone wants everyone else around them to be equal and, if they aren't, they feel left out and give up.

But, it's not ALL about quality on steemit either. People with rich friends do get higher rewards than people without no matter the quality of their post. I don't really agree with it, but I don't really care either. Someone can earn that $30 posting about bitcoin and I am earn $1. That dollar, to me, is a dollar more than I would earn on facebook no matter how much anyone else earns.