Of course you're right. I've actually made more here on Steem than I ever thought possible. It's hard not to compare yourself to the Whales who make hundreds of dollars per post... but it's easy to forget that they were building up their followers and their SP while there was no one on the platform and they were never sure if they were wasting their time or not.
Not only did I make zero dollars from Instagram, but I was also advertised to constantly.... very, very easy to walk away from that platform. Same with Twitter. I'll probably never get rid of FB completely, it's got a decade of memories...
$$$ made from first post... $.03
Social Media without Ads....Priceless.
Yes I tend to defend the whales...few seem to recall what they went through. People want to point out that they could buy in at 6 or 7 cents....yeah but would you if the price went from $2 to 6 cents? I saw people on here saying that when the price was 85 cents...do you think they were buying? Nope just complaining.
People think it comes easy...the whales had an opportunity and they took it. Just like there is opportunity now for everyone who is on here. The question is how many are taking it.
Based upon the numbers about 50K taking advantage...550K missing it.