I'd rather post and accumulate, and succeed financially in other areas in order to maintain my minimum financial needs.

But I've only made 8k/year or less for the last 3 years as an artist, and I've just been stubborn about not getting a job at a cafe, and instead working full time. So, I can understand why it would be attractive for someone to want to withdraw a portion of their STEEM on a regular basis to pay the bills, or on a quarterly basis to invest in their business, or even an annual basis to make major business costs. It could be a total game changer.

That and the Venezuela argument are both excellent reasons why people would adopt a more short term mentality for reward extraction.

If you have time to respond to a question, I'd be curious what you think of the voting system sort of auto filtering those people out?

Even if you posted 4 shitty posts a day, and self-upvoted, you'd probably only get like $30 a month, and your hourly wage would probably be worse than if you had just done gigs on fivverr.

Doesn't that sort of automatically disincentivize abuse?