Unfortunately, the human factor will always be present where ever there are humans, and there are humans on steemit, obviously. Greed is something deeply rooted in human behaviour of the modern capitalistic world, steemit is only a small example. But there is hope, we just have to stay optimistic and surround ourselves with passionate and positive people. Luckily, there are still people like that everywhere.
RE: @surfermarly is right to say that greed has overtaken community spirit on Steemit.