Humbling stuff. If minnows right now think it's hard to earn steem, just wait a few more years until the reward pool is even lower and there's 10x as many users to split it between...

We might be at the beginning of the transition away from Steemit as a major income stream opportunity, and towards the "micropayments / beer money" phase. Eventually, if there are gonna be millions upon millions of users, only a very scarce few will earn serious money from the blogging...

Content will need to be even better, more engaging, worth viewing on its own merits, as the shift takes place.