Thought Provoking Comparison

There is always talk of community on steemit and indeed it is and always has been for me anyways a VERY friendly and encouraging platform! We are all busy with life and barely have time to make post, but somehow each of us find the time to upvote and comment and interact with the friends and acquaintances we have made here on steemit.

A while back I made a post talking about community and what seems to be a new trend of upvoting only and not resteeming. I'll post it here Is The Button Broken?!? Or Is It Just Us?!? The post was well received and we had some great comments and thoughtful reasons why we as a community thought this was happening and everyone that posted all agreed that we all needed to start resteeming more to help the community and steemit grow and advance all of our steemit pocket books..

After the Is The Button Broken?!? Or Is It Just Us?!? post, I did a simple SBD giveaway post in which to be eligible for the SBD you had to resteem the post. Here is the post Take My SBD Please!.

The Is The Button Broken?!? Or Is It Just Us?!? post received 2 resteems while the Take My SBD Please! post received 31 resteems.

Whats the easiest way for us to all succeed? As a community? A supportive group working toward a valuable and productive steemit income together?
Or as an Individual spending our "online" time promoting and lifting up ourselves because none else will do it for us.

I found this to be very thought provoking myself. Whats your opinion?

This isn't meant to be negative in any way, and I am truly grateful the opportunity that Steemit provides.