Every investment comes with risk. Its hard for me to see STEEM failing as it has a small but dedicated community behind it with lots of positive things in the pipeline but sometimes good ideas do fail.
I always said that the users on this platform have it backwards. They like to post oodles amount of content when the Price is doing good but flea once it drops. Posting more when the price is low makes more sense as its easier to collect STEEM at such a time.
Your post made me want to have 20,000 Steem ...... I just need to figure out how to X 10 my current amount and I will be all set.
There's so much potential here but is that enough .........
And much easier to get noticed if you produce something of decent quality.
I think you will find a way :)