Re: Jeff's comment about making thousands of dollars per post

When the price of Steem took one of its first big surges, from around 25c to $4, we started to see some huge payouts... One of them was for a make-up tutorial which made about $25k, much to the chagrin and confusion of certain people on Steemit.

The thing is, it's true that the more people join Steemit, the less Steem there will be to distribute. However, it's also true that the more people join, the more demand there is for Steem, and the higher the price. Perhaps we'll see the rewards stay the same, but we might even see them go up. Imagine if Steemit were paying out $10 MM a day, with 500k users... could happen.