You should view Steemit as an alternative social media platform, that gives you the potential to earn real rewards. There is no guarantee of making money.
Think what Facebook gives you for your likes and sharing..NOTHING (well they do give you lots of ads), now think about Twitter does your activity on there offer you a possibility of any real rewards...no, again more ads and lots of money is made by both of them off your content posting and sharing others content.
Along comes Steemit a totally new type of social media platform that does offer you a possiblity of real rewards.
Which one will you decide to interact with most (for me it's Steemit without any doubt), when you get involved you get rewards...maybe not much at first but even 0.050SBD and 0.050 STEEM after 7 days is MORE THAN Facebook and Twitter will pay you.
Don't give up, comment on posts and create good posts....don't spam, don't plagiarize, always reference other sources.
You got an upvote (not that I agree with your points, just to be nice) & resteem (because I want more to see this and comment so you can reply to comments and earn a little to see it works).
Steem on Beyond the moon, we will watch it fly further than that. Good luck to us all.
I never thought of it in that context - thanks for the fresh view on it!