I'm getting my info from "Top Authors By Payout (30 days)" here, https://usesteem.com/steemwhales/topauthors

If you have a better source, I'd love to see it.

No one is going to work for free on Steemit anymore as enforecer48 explained.

In point 1 and 2 you claim that SC barely makes any steem-money (reward pool) and then in point 3 you say "no one is going to work for free"? Which is it? Does SC barely make any steem-money or are they working for virtual peanuts?

What the heck is SPS?