It's unfortunate that too many people get caught up in the rewards and view Steemit solely for monetization. We see a few people make tons off of every post and suddenly expect to do the same. It's no easier to become rich off of Steemit than it is becoming rich off of YouTube. Steemit isn't meant to make you enough returns than you can quit your job (even if it has done that for some people). it's about the belief that a social network's value comes entirely from the people that use it and thus those people should share in the financial rewards, not just the social network's shareholders. Everyone who contributed to make the platform what it is should be treated a shareholder.
Then again, the rewards aspect is Steemit's largest draw. It's even what brought me to Steemit initially, until I learned there was so much more to it than that. If it were up to me though, you would see the Upvotes button display in STEEM, not in SBD.
Thank you @erickpinos - your comment and @gtg's comment made me adjust that one sentence a tiny bit. The financial rewards may be what drew us here in the first place, but I admit, what keeps some people here longterm may be something other than those rewards. What I wrote is true for many people, but it may not be true for ALL. So, thank you for your comment!
Thank you for the post! Of course, everyone want to make money on here. But my vision for the future of Steemit is a decentralized social network that I can use instead of Medium or Facebook to read articles and chat with my friends, all the while earning rewards for our content as a nice bonus.
Yes, I would love that, too! But I'll need it to be a lot prettier until then! :D