OK, I'd better start out by saying I have the mathematical skills of a turnip and any figures I include here are just to set the balls rolling.
Money is the root of all evil, so they say, and Hive really hasn't changed much in the past year or so I've been avoiding it. Without further ado, here are my five suggestions:
Scrolling down my feed, the people I follow generally earn between $0 and $20 per post, but there are accounts I don't follow endlessly posting mediocre boring crap and earning over $50 a pop for it.
Meanwhile there are whales who don't know shit from chewed dates giving huge upvotes to art that has zero originality and is going nowhere. If Pablo Picasso had lived in these times and posted on Hive he probably would have been downvoted FOR PUTTING THE EYES IN THE WRONG PLACES!
(this is a painting by Pablo Picasso)
(this is one of my paintings)
