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Steem basic income is one of the most popular programs on Steemit. If 
@steembasicincome and 
@smartvote did not exist, I would have left this platform. Earning a little bit of money is next to impossible without support. As a minnow you have zero exposure and zero power. So you need help. You could make friends and hope you gain their upvotes. But that takes some time. If you want immediate succes at earning more money, steem bacis income shares are a good way to go. It's a long term solution because at first you need to invest a little bit of money. This could have been a problem when Steem was about 5 or 6 dollars. When you invested 100 dollars you only had about 20 Steem. Today it's a whole different situation. To give an example, a few days ago I bought about 120 dollars of Steem. That amount gives you hundreds of Steem! So buying some shares is not really a problem.
If you buy shares from them, you get upvotes from @steembasicincome every day. More shares means bigger upvotes. You coud also delegate Steempower to them, in return you get some shares.
Now I earn about 1 or 2 dollars for each of my posts. That does not sound much but I used to get 2 or 3 cents... It's a big motivator to keep on posting when you're earning decent money. And who knows...maybe Steem will discover new highs in the future and it will be all worth it.
