you are right, luck does play a part in it too. My account was worth over 20K in Jan, I have not powered down and its worth only 6K now with all the additional work I have done since then. but I have way more steem now. Its accumulation phase before the next positive wave.
Because I believe in this is a chance to accumulate, I have do disaagree on the hard work point. I have worked damn hard and I do think it is paying off. i work hard on posts, when I do a data post it could take the entire day, and then I try curate and comment and engage as much as possible. I know by doing this my 'engaged' following is growing.
Hard work is OK but I have seen many hard-workers, getting just crumbs for their posts while things are much different for the powerful elites.
You are so so right. Part of the problem is there are not enough 'middle class' distributing steem. We need way more large dolphins doing this work
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