There's a classic psychological device commonly known as "the Marshmallow Test." You put little kids of about 5-7 in a room. You give them each a marshmallow on a plate and then tell them you have to "go do something," and if they can WAIT and not eat the marshmallow... they'll get TWO marshmallows when you come back.
It basically test's a person's ability to delay gratification.
Steemit is pretty much like that... one group of people who basically want to eat as many marshmallows as they can get their hands on NOW, and another group who want to build a big pile for later.
The problem with too much "now" in a venue like this is that it tends to mean that there's won't BE a "later" for either short-termers OR long-termers. And that would kind of suck... and it's also the message I want to try to spread.
Of course, some people simply don't care; they just flit around from opportunity to opportunity, oblivious to the reality that THEY are the answer to the pervasive question "Why do these things keep failing?"