I will point out that your quotes and not things I actually said.

I hope you read some of the other comments as you will see that money is not the primary driver for many. Of course it can attract people, but then they may find a fun community. On Mastodon or Identica you might have already have known a lot of people there from being active in the open source world. Hive/Steem has had less of those people so far. 

Compared with many you are not actually that active here and what you do on Discord will be invisible to most. 

Hive is neither a ponzi nor a pyramid. Those rely on people at the bottom paying in for those at the top to get paid. Hive generates the funds anyway. Nobody has to buy $HIVE if they don't want to, but if they do then it may help the price. There have to be reasons to build your stake that way and I can think of a few. It does get noticed if you make that sort of commitment, but it's still optional.

If you haven't looked at Splinterlands your assumptions may be wrong. You do not lose money as such there, but buying cards or packs can be considered a gamble.

I can't say that you are really 'doing Hive wrong', but maybe you are just not reaching the right people. I know others who are new here and post once a week to get big votes. That can be because they got involved with an active community.

I definitely don't want you to leave, but we each have to make the best use of our valuable time.

!BEER