Their hard work? You realize they weren't actually mining, like with pick axes and little hats with lights, right. They ran a cloud instance for like 3 months, and ended up with millions for their troubles. Isnt that capitalist enough.
And btw, they did it in a closed market place. It wasnt public. thats not capitalist, its a command economy... mercantilism at best.
And most of the posts on the trending page with the huge earnings are there because theyre the beneficiaries of whale bot follow lists... thats not really democracy, its oligarchy
I like steem, its made me a lot of money and i still have 6k in steem power invested. But trying to sell its bugs as features is going to do nothing except harm the credibility of the platform.