Dear @jerrybanfield and others who have a significant follower base and steem power and therefore earn significant amounts of $ from each other mostly for even trivial posts (because app. 90% of money earned is from whales if I would make a guess). Not a critique, but if you put the $$$ as a single argument you are misleading, because thats not the reality for people starting new at Steemit. Unless you are investing heavily in powering up, you will end up spending hours on creating good content and are rewarded with a $ or maybe 2. It is not worth the time spent for minnows. That´s a fact. Steemit is no doubt a great invention, also for other reasons, e.g. the aspect of reduced censorship vs. facebook. But to use money as a primary argument, says something about how you think about it, but it won´t help too much newcomers, who struggle after the initial introduceyourself posts.
I would spend more money to improve the user registration process, because that is another thing putting off many potential new users.