The easy roads are rarely easy when you count the costs of what is dropped along the pathway. Steemit imo is much more honest with the money than other social sites as at them, the billions generated are hidden from view. People do not consider themselves miners there but they are, just for conglomerates. There are the bots, the cheaters, the fake accounts, like4like, follow4follow there too. You just don't see their wallets.