There are ways to make a living on this forum. It takes investment and a lot of it. You can invest money to build up your Steem power. I have just invested my faucet earnings into building up my Steem power. I also invested my failed Bitconnect investment into this forum. Also you can invest computing power through being a witness which pays in Steem. Those are really the only ways to make any money that I can see. Even if you have the best content in the world. You have to have the upvote power to make your posts worth something.

I think giving to charity is a good idea. You produce great content and I love reading it. I think your account will grow, I have had my frustrations with growth on this site, but it has been a hard road to walk. It took me for ever to get my vote to $0.01, I am knocking on the $0.02. Maybe I will start to see faster growth soon.