I´ve always looked at Steemit has a great chance to pay my degree. What I mean by that is: I´m putting my time and effort in the platform to then wait for the increase in the price and recover all the money I invested in my education.
I´m from Portugal and here you can live with $600 a month, but you will have to make some gymnastic to pass the month, and I know that because my parents have that problem. I would say that to live comfortably here you need at least $1500 a month, which is achievable for the bigger people on Steemit, but incredibly hard, if not impossible for the majority of us!
It's doable to earn 100 Steem/sbd in a month though... So imagine if Steem was valued $10. That would help a lot! :)
Of course, as I mentioned if you are already established on the platform with a good amount of SP you can live of Steemit for some time (maybe not forever), but for now +95% of people depend on the rise of the price to be able to make some money.
Let´s be real, no one likes to see their "job" wage to be dependent of price fluctuations. But I think everybody here would love to make this their job. (at least a part-time :D)