Who's voting on this shit? Seriously Steemit is going to be a big pile of shit if this is what kind of posts authors will be getting rewarded for.
You know where you can go to get a metric fuck ton of better advice on these kind of topics? Try smartblogger.com , fourhourworkweek.com/blog/ , or smartpassiveincome.com.
At least these guys have spent years with a shit ton of excellent helpful content litered all over their websites.
2k payout for this post? Something sure seems way off and I am a little less excited for Steemits future at this point.
WOW. I am "a little less excited for Steemit's future" because of haters like you. The reception I've received here is shockingly harsh and discouraging. I blog on entrepreneurship because it is my passion and I hope to provide some useful, very practical advice for beginners. If you hate my writing so much, why don't you ignore it?
My post wasn't a personal attack on you personally. It is how things are getting paid out on Steemit and curated that is appearing to be bull. As a person who has been here a little while now, something doesn't seem right and smells a little fishy. My wife wrote a freaking 6-8k word post awhile back on avoiding scams when traveling internationally, it had more information in it than some ebooks from amazon, and it paid her a big fat fucking 0.03 cents. You know how long she worked on that post? Months, to be honest, a matter of fact she was creating it to place on her website, but decided to place it here instead.
That is just one example of a high-quality post with no reward. How a pretty basic informational post like this one that is pretty common information found all around the net is getting a payout like it is ought to raise a few eyebrows.