I was just sat here about to go to bed and had a thought. We all write about our lives, or about the things we enjoy such as photography, cryptocurrencies, economics etc and our content is primarily kept as an internal post but what if Steemit, on our behalf, started to license our posts out to earn cold hard cash?
In any open economy, you have to have money coming in from elsewhere. It's no different for the cryptocurrencies so I think Steemit's operating company could license our content out, earn an income itself but we also earn part of that as the content creators. This creates a revenue stream for Steem (see what I did there lol) and us, and it also helps to strengthen the Steem brand, promoting it on various sites that are seen by people who may not have a clue about cryptocurrencies and could become interested after seeing a cryptocurrency based community publishing articles for everyone else.
Just an idea. It would be good to see Steem do very well ;-)