Or another way is to just accumulate Steem Power. I know I've been saying this for two years now, but I'm just always puzzled looking at users powering down to zero.
I feel the same way. It's all about continuity. 1 Steempower every day, equals to 7 Steempower every week - 30 per month and 360 per year.
And 1 Steempower per day is actually fairly easy to accomplish. Take this number times 3 or times 5 and it's a good sum.
Additionally, this sum gets more, the more active and known you are on Steem.
To make Steem mining more similar to the passivity of Bitcoin / Ether mining, one would need to risk some cold hard capital and set-up auto upvotes to support accounts / projects in order to earn the rewards. But that's just too much of a limited use case for Steem
Vote-Selling and delegating Steempower is in my opinion the most truest form of using Steempower as active dividends.
And I know: some people don't like it.
But the truth is: Steem is not just a Blogging-Plattform but a blockchain and everyone is free to do what they want with their stake.
We are still in the early phase of Steem - even though not as early as when you joined, @kewinwong.
And when you take @ned's goal of having over 100.000 Apps & Business built on Steem by 2020 in consideration - then the reason to mine as much Steempower as possible through Posting, Voting, Vote-Selling or Delegating is actually fairly logical.
What I mean with that is: we are right now in the phase where everyone should accumulate as much Steempower as possible (without abusing the System of course) because if Steem evolves as in @ned's vision, then Steem & Steempower will become very valuable.