Yes, how long have you been on steemit? Did you notice we have 1.2 million users from who 55K are active? Did you read all the posts and complains that people write 100 posts and 80 out of them got not even 1 cent? If they accumulate some steem this way they are able to atleast build a following quicker, upvote themselfs or others etc.. + steem bough is steem bought. We want people to exchange their fiat/crypto's for steem :)
Look at me. I'm sitting with 2 accounts almost on 4000 STEEM. I started with 350 STEEM. How did I gain so much? Because of collecting every penny, invest, reinvest and do it again. I did well even if I say it myself :)