Great to see you being successful.
I like this platform for a variety of reasons (foremost: decentralized, no censorship, easy to share) and am not in it for the money, but for the great content offered, and new friends made.
Hopefully in time I will have earned enough to make my upvotes more meaningful. That, to me, is the primary incentive to write good posts that earn me steem power I can then pass on to others.
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I have been here for the money from the start - not that I really ever considered it a candidate for making a living - but because I am interested in technology that lets artists monetise directly of the internet. For me it is an experiment that could change the rather sad state of the arts after the internet destroyed the old systems. I do not really care for editors, A&R, art dealers etc. they took a far to big share, but if the internet can't make an alternative business model artists will suffer.
But even though my original interest was money I have gained a lot of other things here on Steemit - it is really a fascinating place - both uplifting and sometimes repulsive (system gaming, boting, begging, flagging and fraud)