I came across quite a few posts of dear steemians writing about posting content on steemit should never be about potentially making money and thought I share my thoughts, my opinion, yes, only my opinion and everyone has and is entitled to their opinions. You don't have to agree with me and I can live with that :)
Firstly, do you still remember what was the main draw for you to be on steemit posting what you post, given the many social media platforms out there and so many that are currently more established than steemit? Facebook only recently boasted of its 2 billion accounts.
Let's be honest about it, shall we?
For me, it was the lure of potentially being rewarded financially for posting content or even just blogging. Granted that there were some extras that fancinated me, like everything being recorded on blockchain making it permanent, decentralised making it less prone to censorship, steem token, etc... BUT the main draw was being potentially rewarded financially no matter how little. Facebook paid me a whopping ZERO for the years I have been posting on it, sharing my thoughts, my views, my feelings, good and sometimes bad content... The fact is that I got nothing financially. Then came along steemit which is a game changer because one can actually get financially rewarded... It IS about the money.
Then again, it doesn't take long for a rookie to find out that nope, it's not going to be easy to make serious money here, even if you are writing good useful content because your reach is so limited especially when you are new that if your post doesn't catch the eye of a whale who decides to help you by giving you a pat on your shoulder, you are most likely to walk away with a cent or two of your own upvote. And I say it again, no matter whether your content is good or not, you have literally a couple of minutes before your post gets buried by other posts, never to see daylight again.
So after time, struggling persistent rookie steemians "trick" themselves that it was never about the money in the first place, it was about writing and sharing good content, blah blah blah when it IS literally what got them here in the first place.
Post after post, the "lie" somewhat becomes real for them, hahaha... at least for me... But there is still the hope that someday somehow, there will be a breakthrough when I discover the winning formula ;)
So for me, there is no shame to admit that yes, I would like to be rewarded for my efforts no matter how little, yes, I'm still persisting with the hope that I might one day be like the whales many hold in awe of, yes, I would like to have a post actually pay for a meal someday. Because if not, facebook, Instagram and many others allows me to do whatever I'm doing and I dare say on many grounds, in a better way
Money is not neccesarily evil, if it motivates you to do better then I think it's alright to embrace it.
Yes, I hope to be rewarded with my post with an upvote but I'm definitely not holding my breath waiting for it to happen and it's ok if you don't. But I am not going to say that it was never about the money ;)
Everyone is fighting their own battle and I understand and empathize :) Fight on!
