Well...you are spot on right about the 'cash flow' situation. I obviously didn't think that aspect through, before I wrote it. So thanks for a reminder on that.
What I was trying to say with number two was maybe more an observation, that people have been so accustomed to everything online being free, that they may be reluctant to invest in a phenomenon as Steemit.
That opens up another interesting question: what kind of people will constitute the main user base on Steemit in the future? Or maybe rather: could Steemit become so mainstream (mainsteem...) that people started posting babyphotos, random rants, and sharing the same type of stuff they now share on FB? Or will the platform rather appeal to 'bloggers' in a very wide sense. You seem to believe the ladder is the case, but at this point, anything could happen, I think.
Cheers!