It's hard to say what is good content these days when funny animals or swearing gamers can make millions on-line. But if that makes people laugh then I guess it has value. A lot of people are just not interested in reading long and informative posts. And so 'clickbait' posts can make a lot on Steemit whilst many people will feel their carefully researched posts are overlooked. There's only so much Steem to be shared out.
There are many ways in which Steemit could succeed. Adding games where people win Steem could be popular, but it's not what I want. I'd love to see writers, artists and musicians being well rewarded for creating great work. Many in those fields are struggling to be able to create their work without having to take on other work to pay the bills.
I hope to see Steemit grow to become the go-to place for content of all kinds and with a market for goods and services using Steem.
Thanks for the feedback. To think and depend on Steemit and not "having to take on other work to pay the bills", is unrealistic. You yourself said there is only a limited amount of Steem to be shared. Therefore, it's not realistic or rational to depend on the platform to sustain your income. Peace.
For now it's probably not realistic, but in a couple of years when there are millions of users and Steem has a much higher value then it may be possible. We've seen already that some authors made thousands, but I'm not sure they could sustain that.
They are already popular, some of them.
While others, seem to be Socket Puppet bots run by some whales for exploiting the system to reap and drain rewards, curations, and payouts to themselves by using deceptive and manipulative tactics to siphon the daily-pool wealth into their pockets. This is a serious issue that is perverting the platform for all the regular honest people. Please read that post. Over 400 upvotes with 0 payout because there seems to be a clic of greedy corrupted whales who don't want this information getting out. Money has degenerated them.