I bet more people fail posting content they have no passion for because they think it is going to get them more UpVotes.

"Best thing to do is to network (its a social network after all) and find your people, and write to them."

This is kind of contradictory to this:
"I totally understand why people want to figure out what content gets upvoted and write to that. We need to eat! That's what's done 'out there' on blogs everywhere, but the audience is usually much bigger."

People should get jobs/work if they want to have a stable income. If you don't already have a good stock of steempower, there's almost no chance of you making a living off it without catching the attention of some larger power holders. This is essentially stating that you understand why people are fake and it's ok. Where I am under the opinion that anyone doing this is just trying to be lazy in life and get free money form posting, and while it may work for 1% of us, the rest will sit not making much(definitely not a living).

I feel like a better way to use/look at this site is building up your content/audience in the beginning and just keep at it, but too many people expect to actually make a living off of this. Which will, again, work for about 1% of users.(maybe less depending on how big steemit gets/how fast it expands.)

It is kind of obnoxious to hear all these users complaining about how their content is "GREAT!" but gets no attention. Or things like, "Why don't whales like my posts." Most of the times I go through content of these users, it is just straight crap desperately trying to catch the attention of said "whales." But 90% of the "great/interesting content" I have gone through of people making these claims is/has been worthless and totally makes sense that it is not getting anywhere.