Correction: Steemit posts are not paid by the number of upvotes, they're paid by the upvotes of "significant" steem power holders. Basically if you get 100 votes from steem minnows, the payout is going to be a very small fraction when compared to a few upvotes from steem superwhales.
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yes and the accounts that are being paid in some way know these whales personally or work with them on the dev team or in slackd