RTFM.

Hello,
I kind of understand where you are coming from. You joined 2 weeks ago just like me with 10 SP. I am one of the "lucky ones" according to your theory as I have $849.56 at the moment though I do not know why you chose the $800 limit. Why not the $80 or $8000? But that money did not just appear on my balance. As you can see I did not post a lot but those were my own original thoughts with my own pictures. I am not saying yours are not your own originals! My author rewards roughly $52. That is not a lot but I am very grateful for that. I have not written since because I did not want to write just for the sake of if or for the money. How come I have $850? You cannot just invest your time, effort in steemit to make it succeed for all, but also your money. It is a startup. If you believe in it there are other ways to increase your voting power. Transferring a few bitcoins for your steemit account would do the trick.

Please read into the pareto principle. Whoever created this place we call reality didnt have equality of outcome in mind. Its the 80/20 principle in action. THE PERCENTAGE wont change but the NOMINAL number of people who are in each category will increase. All complains stem from the misunderstanding about the law of uneven distribution.

As Minnows grow into Tilapias more value will start to spread around the newbie, user, and super user sections. It just takes time and @berniesanders upvotes.

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Many people are posting just because of money and they get disappointed when the reward is not coming.

I saw people with real stories and $1-$2-$3-$4-$5 maximum earnings but also people who promise that will eat their socks if the post will get $2000 and he has $150 in earnings.

Is not fair i know but people has to change their mentality of giving/getting rewards.

If people don't get rewarded, they are not doing a good job. Man, I have been working my ass of like crazy here. I was only getting pennies. Last week I finally wrote 1 article that made me $600. But people expect they deserve to get everything easy and free. If you don't have boobs, you are gonna have to work hard to get money on here. But instead of crying about it, why not see it as a challenge ? Especially now as we are early adopters. If you manage to get a decent amount of Steem here now, it could be very interesting for the future. 

Stay chill and keep steeming.

2642 people holds more then 800$ worth of assets on steem. They hold all the cards. We are just minor players.

Interesting post. Well done :)

@ape upvoting because it's a good topic to discuss.  You already stopped by <a href="https://steemit.com/steemit/@williambanks/response-to-dantheman-notice-to-bot-spammers">my post</a> where I explain similar concerns from a different perspective and I appreciate it and wanted to return the favor.

Thanks!

Since on Steem(it) there *is* a reward >0, anything that is paid out to users can be seen as money they wouldn't have received on any other platform. So they that's already a profit.

As for the number of "invested" people, you need to remember that Steem has only launched 4 months ago. If you think of a startup that has 40k people knowing about it and 2600 investors (crowdfunding style), then I'd call that a success.

The core concept of Steem is that over time, the money trickles from investors to endusers (which then also become partly an investor because of the SP/SD split for blogging rewards).
Assuming the market cap stays flat, only those "investors" profit from the platform that actually take part and post, vote, comment. Else, they will make a loss. Then of course investors can also profit from the growth of the network and market cap.

Also, investing into Steem is at least as risky as any other startup because you can only get fully out of it after 2 full years.

So, I am not concerned about these figures at all. At least they show we have a growing user base and we certainly bring crypto to the masses!