The True Power Of Steem?

Everyone here boasts about Steem. I mean, who wouldn't right?

You're getting paid to post content on a social media platform (with share2steem.io, you can share your mainstream social media content back onto Steem and get paid for it too). What's not to love?

There are various efforts to onboard new people to the steemit platform, whether it's from @blocktrades, @steemonboarding, @coruscate, @oracle-d, @nathanmars' #Seven77 movement on twitter, @rustle, or even #steemtorch.

All valiant efforts by everyone involved.

However, what if in the process of onboarding someone, you needed evidence to back up your claim about how good this platform is?

This is where this experiment comes in.

It all started with a simple question:

Can this hot fudge sundae pay for itself?

I know, I know. It sounds crazy, especially since the price of Steem is rather low right now. But it's an idea that started to form over breakfast with fellow Steemian, @mattclarke while in Sydney. What if the price of Steem was such that you could order a meal, photograph it, post it to Steemit.com and the upvotes would pay for the meal itself?

But then I realised that the price of Steem is only as important as having the numbers of followers who are willing to upvote your meal photos. Don't you want to disrupt the FIAT system by rendering it useless?

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The large hot fudge sundae cost me AU$4.25 which means that this post would need to attract 9.70891492 Steem or more worth of upvotes to break even.

Yesterday I uploaded a DTube video that is paying $19.61 STU at the time of posting this.
So, it's definitely possible.

While I agree with the @contestkings philosophy of "No upvotes, no resteems" with their contests and I would normally adopt that here if this was a competition but this is an experiment.
Think of this as acting like #steemtorch but FREE and FUN!