This could never be a promotion for personal gain. No never, far from it. I studied finance and I can testify that what you are saying is true.
The truth is that, I have never being promoting steemit to the public in a massive way. The reason is that I want to investment some money, raise it to at least 100. That way I will have some SBD to sell to anyone I will introduced and mentor. Anyone who need my monitoring should be ready to invest at least 10SBD.
This is right way of thinking, keep going