Yes there is always hope for a better world!
Welcome to the Steem World!
I have recently made an orientation video that will help you in your journey here - and will hopefully answer all the questions that took me months to figure out.
https://steemit.com/dtube/@maneki-neko/rlfwsqlj
https://d.tube/#!/v/maneki-neko/rlfwsqlj
I wish you all the best here on Steem!

I will also use the tag : Hive account@originalworks for this post, this will summon a robot that, if you wrote this original article, will give you an additional upvote. :)