You hit upon a point I keep making @cryptoctopus.
We simply do not know what condition someone else is in when we upvote them. Personally, I upvote every comment made on my article even those that appear to be nothing more without much effort. Some of them are in extremely poor English and when I look at where they are from, it is from some poorer nation many times.
While not going to the length that you are in terms of each comment, I do give many 30 and 50 cent comments out during the days. Some people are getting 3 or4 of these from me a day which amounts to a fair amount of SBD when it is paid. Like you said, in many countries, $5 or $6 makes a big difference.
As for the answer to your question:
It isnt the difference it would make in my life that is important. In fact, since I joined I have not taken one cent that I earned. Everything that comes in is used to power up.
So the difference it would make is in the lives of all the people I upvote. They are the ones who matter. More SP for me equates to more Voting Power which is a higher upvote total for them.
As for the impact in their lives, we can only imagine who we are helping.
Thank you for sharing this eye-opener for all to see. This is the essence of what the steem blockchain is all about.
This is why I count you and @cryptoctopus among the best people I have met here on Steemit.
Wow...thank you @wdougwatson...
That is a hell of a compliment....I have a ton of respect for what @cryptoctopus is doing on here.
Dude, I'm just being honest.
@cryptoctopus is a whale, and an extremely generous one. He can drop a couple bucks on someone like mana from heaven and does it cuz he wants to help people.
What you do is no less significant. I read your blog. I read the comments. Many of them are probably just spamming. Little useless comments so maybe they will get an upvote... Follow for Follow... Please check my blog sir...
Most people look on this with disdain, but you don't. You give them something. "Why?" I think it is because of what you have stated. You don't know what there life is like. You don't know what they suffer. So you try to help them.
You are a good dude.