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It seems to me that if you took the top trending payouts and divided the aggregate amount by the number of Steemit users the total per user would be far, far less than it is right now. I have exactly zero numbers to back this up, just a feeling based on a year of curating posts

First off:

When I first got my Steemit account, you gave me my first 1 SBD and it was magic ... Thanks for that :D

I know it doesn't feel that way, but the rewardpool is the same as before the hardfork.
And that's where all the rewards come from.

This is going to make STEEM moon very soon. A few thousand STEEM are now enough to provide a living wage to about half of the planet's population via curation.

This is going to be insane.