"Let’s stop pretending that the solution is just to work as hard as I did and you can be as successful as I am."

Now this is the biggest point here, everyone wants to make it, everyone (apart from the vote bot farms) and although I joined beginning of Jan 2018 I am hugely enjoying this platform and the sustenance that it could offer my life and allow me to get by without using the conventional UK methods such as "University" (I am studying an art foundation but would like to show the world examples of how there are other ways of making it in the world) However.......It's the issue you said broken SBD short term, minnows like me staying I can count off the top of my head a dozen amazing up and coming artists that would love the hell out of Steemit; but I know they would struggle at first due to lack of not just basic understanding of cryptocurrencies/blockchain technologies work, but I would know their work would be cut out against them DESPITE THE SIMPLE AS ANYTHING SIGN UP PROCESS.

Everyones brilliant ideas need to be thrown together with a philosophy like yours and out comes the platform that we need, not necessarily the one that certain greedy people deserve.

10/10 article mate