I think this is an open question that could be connected to the culture of money itself. Money matters and is of great importance in e.g. decision making processes. Why should consumers not be interested in getting paid for their time, their work, their creativity? Regardless of what my opinion may be, every Like on Facebook I make, every new "friend", every new group approvement is connected to my data pool and of course monetized in the background. So why shall it stay in the background? Is there any plausible argumentation why someone should be underaged in questions of value, what value my data packages have, what price is set up, what someone gets paid for it... Steemit is not only a social media platform it is also a platform of reflection. It enables to scruitinize usual social media practices and processes, we in fact don't know about. I more and more get the feeling that facebook et al. have to put emotions on top to distract from what is really going on. Have you ever compared the miner structure of bitcoin with the witness structure of steemit, @jptsmit?