MySpace was supposed to make the starving artist go extinct - and it did for the ones who maximized on that platform - but, it died. Facebook used to make an even playing field for creatives, there was a time I was getting 3-5000 hits to my website a week and my posts were reaching 20-70K people. That's how I built my business. But, Facebook died too. When Steemit gets really popular, the reward pool will be the same, but there will be 100x as many content creators trying to get a piece of it. Eventually, SBD will drop down to $1 or less and Steemit will become much harder to eek a profit from. I'd love it if the idea of the starving artist went away but to a lot of artists, they don't feel like "real" artists unless they;re starving and suffering. SOOOOO many of my artist friends don't even take 3 minutes to look into Steemit. They're not entrepreneurs, even if you give them a platform to make free money, it's too much work for them... It's not art if they;re "just trying to make money with it" etc...
