Yeah, it shows!
This post is inspiring to me today, just when this hard fork business, which I barely understand, is starting to get me down. I have to remember that, even if I begin to make even less money than I do now, steem will still be a place I can go to amuse and interest myself, and hope some others (who don't care about the fact that their stake in my 13 cents will be negligible) will be amused or interested as well.
If you remember that, you will find that the path leads to earning more, not less when people come here to be amused and find interesting things to do rather than be fed what someone has been monetized to feed them.
Earning more what? Precious few people ever read my stuff, and each time someone does it's a lovely feeling I get (sorry about that passive voice writers). I'm already keeping an eye out for those I follow whose posts make a goodly sum (and it's not necessarily better content, it's folks who have figured out how to play the numbers), and will spend more of my time courting them, which leaves me less time to support the little interesting folk like me. The fork is leading me away from myself.
If there is one thing I have learned however, it is that bad things lead to great things, so there's that.
you gave me an idea for my zapfic entry!
https://steempeak.com/zapfic/@owasco/a-hard-choice