If Steemit was a thing in the roaring 20s, I would be a pauper for sure.
Fresh out of a 14-hour workday at the coal mines, it's time to hustle and sell some papers.
There's just not as much money in drawing comics as there is in crypto-analysis but that doesn't change a thing for 
No guaranteed upvotes means you have to work hard for your crypto, which is usually a couple of cents.
Back in those days, it cost a dime for a loaf of bread and it was 70 cents for a pair of movie tickets, you hear...? *
(* Actual 1929 prices)