It is simple really ; steemit is a scam , the same way it was a scam to use small metal token for convince to buy a pig hundreds of years ago instead of having to carry or cart along the seven chickens you other wise would have had to use to pay the owner of the pig you were buying...
The guy who wrote the 'Declaration of Independence' or the "Magna Carta" were running scams until enough people decided to believe in those concepts...
Heck in 1775 the Presidency of The United States of America was a scam till marketing or Social Media manipulated honest people into believing in those ideals.
Simply anything new or different is a scam until enough people are not caught out over time, in other words people are just wary and distrustful of change...
Funny how history repeats itself over time; in 1775 the Presidency was a scam now in the year 2016, The Presidency of The United States of America is just simply up for sale prices.
Please try and find an honest Representative to vote for (or Against) come November, after all if you fail to vote in November your nothing but an anti-social domestic terrorist enemy to Democracy...
/ hugz ; )
They call it "fake it till you make it."