No matter what the creators or anyone promoting the community says, its still a human construct, run by humans (propably) and functioning in the same principles that pretty much shaped any society to its current form. That means that on one side there will be the privileged-early adopters-publicly admired users that for various reasons seem to matter the most and earn more than anyone else and on the other side all the other users.

The thing is that the 'other users' are imo divided into two major categories. The ones that are actually trying to improve and do something through the use of Steemit (whether that is money,fame,etc) and the ones who like the idea, but are not really motivated into having an extremely active role in the community. Considering myself to belong in the second category (I really like the idea, but I am not so good at blogging and those stuff) I try to currate, comment and promote any content I think its worth it.

So my advice to the people who belong in the first category would be...cooperate! You want your channel expand and blablabla? Talk with others with a similar situation, try to make something innovative and make us (little fishes vote for you haha)

Anyway, nice thinking and good luck with your blog!