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Isn't it? If you get friends to invest in Steem, they will have more Steempower and won't your friends upvote your posts and pay you back that way? Or your friends don't like what you post?

Dude you suck and money or something. The high payments are caused by the world's perception of the technology's value coupled with the value of content on STEEMit.

No it is exactly that, we buy steem power, the developers turn most of it into cash for themselves and what's left over is given to a few vocal supporters of the site, the devs have pretty much all of the voting power so nothing negative becomes too popular. When people start to wake up and realise they have been swindled and try to cash out there will be no money for them, the devs took it.