Imagine starting a business from the ground up with a partner that took their share of the company yet, didn't put in their share of the work nor the investment to keep the business growing, to develop a strong foundation. How long can the business survive? Most likely, until the partner doing the work quits. It might be harder to see here due the large numbers of partners but, the same idea holds true.

It is very interesting how real life situations can be attributed to life on steemit, the business will definitely collapse out of frustration, or the partner leaves out of frustration, either of the two outcome is almost inevitable

And, it can't just be the people who have invested in, people are going to to need to invest themselves in too. At all levels

As you have mentioned in the later part, investment in is almost as proportional as investment in self, because if we look at it critically, relating this to steemit, where out of investment of oneself, knowledge is acquired, then this knowledge is shared through the platform, serving its purpose of informing, educating and discussing quality, hence attracting rewards to the self, which is in turn used to invest in the platform. the need for investment in self and the platform cannot be overemphasized.

Why should some live in discomfort and downside while others enjoy only upside? If we are expected to share the fruits of labour, shouldn't the suffering of the labour itself be shared too? This is a sharing economy after all.... many only want to receive the gifts.

The problem is that a lot of people operate on "To whom much is given much is expected" principle instead of '' To whom whatever has been given, equally more work is expected" after all we were all given a particular amount of delegated sum.