Steem is not paying you!

I read it very often: A lot of people telling others that steem or steemit are paying bloggers for creating or curating content.
Some even say its the first platform which does so. I can't validate the latter due to missing knowledge.

What I do know is that steem is not paying anyone. At least not real (fiat) money. You don't get any money from anyone here. All you get is a coin/token/asset called STEEM (if you convert or power down SBD or SP) which has no value by default. The token arises out of nothing.
But as long as people are willing to pay money or other coins for steem on exchanges, you can get real money for steeming. Which is great..

I guess the whole thing is rather philosophical but I just want to make clear that no one here, creators or members of the network, are providing more than time and effort. Paying are the people buying STEEM. Thanks to them 🎉😀

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