I don't know what to think anymore, in one hand it really should be 50/50 and downvotes and all the stuff... Now, if the authors don't earn as much as they value themselves... They can post to facebok. As long as there is a core of witnesses, developers and stinc development steem will attract users. After all we have been decreasing in numbers of active people for a long time but lots of them are coming back for one reason or another.

Marketing is a must, we are developing a project to hit SPS as soon as possible.
Math is one thing, behavior, greed and short-term thinking is another - and as that joke goes for physicists... Steem is not a spherical chicken in a vacuum.