I mean it's impossible for the average user to earn Steem. No matter how much you try, how often you post or what kind of posts you write. The only people earning Steem are the Top 100. They have thousands of followers (many of them dead accounts of course) and keep getting new followers because when a new user is exposed to the same posts everyday promoted by these whales and see these people have thousands of followers, they will follow too. And it's shocking to me that the top 100 users have more power than all the others combined. Just take a look at the statistics. And many of them don't care about the network, just about their money. And they need new users in order to keep that money and not lose value. There are of course some initiatives trying to help minnows and promote new users. But most of them are very expensive for the average new user. So we see dolphins and whales again using these services and bots.