I have not spent any money here, and I take some out regularly to live on. I am in SE Asia and this is a big source of the small income I need to live on here. Of course now, this means times are very tough.
I look at the effort I put into steemit as my investment. I am in here hours a day, posting, commenting, and marketing the place on my other platforms. everything I do on steemit is in hopes it will survive.
I try hard to keep up with the new initiatives and adapt to them.
I was posting when I got no votes, and I was posting when I did not get a lot of votes but those I got were huge. I am still posting and get a lot of votes, but now each of them is small.
No matter what, I keep trying and will not give up unless someone kicks me out or the place shuts down.