Thank you @jjohnson78 for your great write up, There are two kinds of people on steemit, investors and social media minded people . Those that belongs to former keeps holding steem hoping to gain more when the value rises and those that belong to later just love social and lovely communities on steemit and feels happy when their post receives upvotes and enough audience. In both ways, 95% of people on steemit came to make a living. Everyone of them seeks to make something out of the steemit. So Steemit is therefore full of workers and business oriented individuals. what makes the differences is just that some people have better initiative than others. Good initiative is directly proportional to the amount of money you make here on steemit. So we keep working on the projects to supports the community which in turn will make us famous and bring money to our pockets. Investing on steemit is also something I love doing and it will pay off, at least I'm happy to be here for now and I love the vibe within the communities especially on discord channel.