I believe I would right now but if there was no money to be made from the very beginning, I wouldn't have ever heard of Steemit by now. Steemit feels way more nice than Reddit, probably because some people fear to get downvoted more on this site than on Reddit. However, if the money aspect was to disappear tomorrow, I wouldn't take as much time working on my posts and thumbnails since it would "only" be sharing my passion, not sharing it with hope of getting rewarded.