I liked you post, but I got a bit surprised by this:
First off, I'm not here to make some quick cash like I saw Jeff Berwick do.
What makes think you know what's inside Jeff Berwick's head? It so easy to make assumptions like these and also it's easy to make a mistake when doing so.
The truth is: we don't know. Maybe he just wants "to make some quick cash" and maybe he has other goals. Maybe he initially wanted to make easy money but then realized something else (this is quite likely, as he's converted almost all his Steem Dollars into Steem Power). We just don't know.
I never said anything about Jeff's intentions.
I spoke of my own, compared to the waves of people that I saw trying to duplicate his success.
It in the days following Jeff's venture into steemit, almost everybody I know started jumping on the bandwagon, thinking they could do the same thing.
I was not trying to do the same thing. That is all that I said.
From what I understood about Steem, if you want to make "easy money" steem power is essential. Even if you aren't betting on long game, but are thinking midterm or so, steem power is the way to go. At least all the material about steem that I've seen explains this to be the case.
Yeah, it really turned me off that OP started by tearing someone else down in order to build himself up. Not to mention, anyone closely following Jeff Berwick since he was turned on to steemit would know that he can barely contain his excitement about the long term prospects of this platform and it's implications on multiple levels. He has also been very realistic from start about the kinds of rewards one could expect, saying people can make posts that may be rewarded (and I'm paraphrasing from memory here) "pennies or dollars, to hundreds or perhaps even thousands depending...".