You're quite right @acidyo: most content on Hive would not get paid anything on more "conventional" sites that pay contributors for content. And there have been many, going back all the way to 1998-ish. I've been part of many of them; only one still pays royalties... and they are a pittance.
In traditional Web 2.0, content only has minimal value... if you're lucky and writing in a popular/hot niche, maybe $8-10 per 1,000 page views. In most cases, a tiny fraction of that.
But what exactly is "value?" Moreover, what is value in a community context, not just in an individual context? What is value, in a Web 3.0 context?
I suppose everyone would have their own interpretation... from where I'm sitting, I'd say "value" is something that would make a random outsider who does a search that somehow lands them on an article/post on HIVE look around and think to themselves "This looks like a cool community, I think I'd like to be part of this."
Sure, that means different things to different people. I think we may already have had this discussion, but I ended up on Steemit because I was discussing UBI with a Facebook friend, and he sent me a link to an article about a UBI project that just happened to be written there. It was not a plug for the community, it was a plug for the article.
I ended up making an account because the level of engagement and respectfulness within that engagement made me look around at other posts... and I thought the whole thing seemed interesting and I was also "Crypto Curious" at the time. Almost six years later... ta-da!
But that's my interpretation: I'm a writer, blogger and content creator.
Your interpretation (just guessing) comes more through the eyes of a gamer, yes?
The common thread is wanting Hive to succeed and thrive. The challenge becomes the myriad different interpretations of "value" when we look across the many cultures, backgrounds, nationalities and interests represented here...