Interesting, I've got surprised when you mentioned @grantcardone here lol... I followed him the same day that he did his first post @steemit. I like this steemit site the first time I did my first post, I got one upvote and that's it enough motivation to create more and more!, I don't see that Dark Side like a bad side of @steemit, I love it! because there are no easy money and it means a sustainability of the platform and a great opportunity of the creators, enterpreneurs, others.

I think @grantcardone have a system that works excellent for him in other networks of course, I think he is probably just testing the platform, Steemit doesn't have a LIVE option isn't? to share with all the community like Facebook and Youtube does, @grantcardone is doing his thing in live lately, I think it is just the begining @steemit

It is valid that you said that about @grantcardone in comparation of people like @dollarvigilante that earn more than $15000 in his first post Dollar vigilante is now on steemit 11 monts ago, that was one simple post but he is a big influencer too, not a super great post but he got that reward lol and he is continuosly making content with value @Steemit.
Thanks for your post, this is an amazing site and growing with value
Pd: Excuse me if my english isn't too good for you
Treinor