May please I invite you to go through the large collection of recent posts and comments by people who are being turned off by the payout levels of the up-voting system, and then bring back a summary/synthesis that allows you to support your bullishness about the "post here and get paid" mantra?
I want to see Steemit and Steem succeed as much as the next guy, since I bought a block of money here and promptly put all of it into Steam Power with no plan to power down soon -- which means a certain amount of confidence in the long-term future for Steemit.
At the same time, though, those of us who are coming from various writing communities need to join our hands and help fix the problems in the reward system. For one thing, we need a much more comprehensive approach to the issue of how to stimulate and reward authors than one where we most often offer them two dollars of "payment" for three days of work. There is undue focus on dollar payments, in my opinion.
My bottom line point is that as we head into the SMT era, let's roll up our sleeves and help to fix the defects in the current reward system.