Well, the reason trickle down would never work is there is no forced mechanism or reason for the pool to be distributed downwards, especially in a place like this where there are no on-chain taxes or reasons to distribute money outwards. The markets however punished this heavily, it is only for reasons outside of this blockchain that the prices have gone up from their lows.

I'm just using my account as a pass-through mechanism for wealth distribution, well, just because, there's nothing forcing me or anyone else to do so, and there isn't much social pressure either. Most people are just fine chasing ROI.

As far as blogging goes, no worries, there's not much reason to start blogging at all on steemit until you've found followers and supporters through other means.