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Everyday the network only creates a certain amount of steem that is then given to every user. if there are 200,000 people on steemit and they each get 0.10 ( as an example) when there are 2 million people on steemit the amount will decrease to 0.01 per person, this is why everyone is making less money now

But on trending page, the same people are earning huge over and over again. :)