You could build a business, a game or provide a service on HIVE. I think "blog and earn" is a feature during Hive's token distribution phase, but it won't be forever. With millions of users, we'd have people providing services in exchange for HIVE as well as Paywalls like the INLEO creator subscription that @khaleelkazi just announced at @hivefest on day 1.
Check out 3:13:55 timestamp:
https://www.youtube.com/live/qdZCAEopm4A?si=VdWSZD1IXi_vnDY2&t=11635
There are many ways to make money in crypto, but blogging full-time on HIVE is not a high probability one in my humble opinion. Sure, there are a few outliers, but I'd bet on trying a business approach and design a solution to a problem. But I'm a business guy, so I might be biased.
Creator Subscriptions are going to completely change the monetization matrix of users on Hive