For a small timer like me, who have used all his steem and gave it to steem power, only to earn back nothing is discouraging. The whales on here upvote their friends and other whales, which bring me back to what i was running from "the rich get richer mentality, and the poor still struggling. Check my feed, and you can tell that most of my articles i put the work in, only to get nothing back. I don't know if it makes sense to continue.