I have never invested in Steemit yet and I've earned probably more than 2000 Steem/sbd since I joined last year.
The only thing I invested was my time and effort writing and posting things, joining a lot of contests and testing a lot of Dapps that's why I'm happy and blessed that Steem has been like this for me. It is very rewarding.
I'm not that sad that Steemit has been dripping, though I'm not a crypto expert, if it gets lower than what it is today, I'll probably invest some that are in my budget especially if it's really low like super low that even a mere $100 will give me like 5k steem which is a wishful thinking lol.