While I'm personally enjoying @dollarvigilante's content (I've never known about him before, but very familiar..)

To be fair, he's self-aware that he's getting the moolah because he has been reputable outside of Steemit. Steemillionaire is more symbolic than anything, it's just part of the writing. I really don't see what's wrong with that post. Sure it's a rehash of many Steemit guides already lying around, but perhaps someone with a name can pound it into the heads of his followers?

IMO, he's a straight up honest dude who has been doing his shit for years and years. The fact that he's well known, with full identity shown (part of risk-taking) sort of deserves a higher payout just for that fact alone. The whole post didn't seem condescending to me.. quite the opposite actually.

I'd agree on one thing though - celebs that come in raking all the attention etc - I think they should at least compensate by adding more value into the system by spending more time voting and interacting with the community (like how I personally upvote almost any attempts of readers/followers attempting to communicate with a relatively-nobody like me). I think Steemit is a great channel for creators to create stuff with their consumers.

Upvoted anyway to get the discussion going - appreciate your honesty on the matter. It may be true that attribution to success may be skewed (like how I get all riled up when success gurus don't really know what they're talking about).