Steemit needs to create enough value to keep the website running. Otherwise it won't support the maintenance fee. Then gain, the common question, how would the money come from? Does money really talk?
Being a somewhat beneficiary of Ned's SP, maybe It seems easier said than done from me here. I'm still positive though about Steemit and SMT after Ned's undelegation. Yet of course I also want to hear more real updates of how it goes. Hopefully in the coming SteemFest there would be more news coming,
Money is something STINC doesn't earn as in a revenue model; How strange. But they have a big pile of Steem, so money enough at the moment. They can pay their employees in Steem and SBD, just let their employees make posts and vote for them with their own accounts. Then they don't require to use their own pile.