It's not that they are not making money on Steem. It's that some others are. Who they consider to be inferior. They are extremely butthurt, and cannot stand it.
It's the typical primitive delusion, creating a sport out of life. The only reality is them and others are all equally irrelevant, all of their lives equally meaningless.
It reminds me of the fable of the dog with a bone who sees his own reflection in a pond and thinking it is another dog with a larger bone barks, only to lose his bone in the pond.