Whales, orcas and dolphins: have you forgotten how did you guys become so BIG?

I have made several mistakes when I signed up in steemit, I made fun of a lot of people and I decided to stop writing for some time.

So now I'm reading a lot of posts to understand how people can earn with steemit without wasting too much time.

The thing that scares me most is to see many good authors who earn few cents per post, which does not repay the efforts made in writing their posts. I also see many users with large amounts of STEEM POWER who are voting each other or even worse only vote themselves without thinking in any way to other users.

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Dear dolphins, whales and killer whales: have you forgotten how you have become such?

Have you forgotten that in order to have this huge amount of STEEM POWER someone has read and voted your posts and supported you for a long time so that you have become Big Fish?

Above all, the witnesses have the moral duty to give back to newcomers a bit of what they have accumulated over time and who continue to accumulate thanks also to the support of the community.

Many people have written that quality is rewarded here in Steemit, but I do not believe it and in my opinion you do not believe it too.
It seems to me one of those tales that they tell themselves to get new people on Steemit and keep good that one struggling to collect some change, while the big fish continue to earn huge figures without anyone cares about what happens.

So I ask you: it can still do us some good investing time and striving to write good content, or the time for newcomers is over and we have to settle for crumbs?