Thank you!
Lying in order to impress others rarely works as well as expected, and lying to yourself about the reasons you write just delays the inevitable, which means quitting if the money received from the work is not good.
One can have passion for writing, but how much they do it and where they post it is often influenced by their chance of getting a reward out of it. Take the monetary side out of Hive and see how many people actually keep posting here.
On one hand, it's good because people get motivated to post. On the other hand it's bad because a lot of people just post whatever trash they can hoping to get lucky and get rich.
But, I cannot deny that what you say is true. If more people would engage more often, and that includes me, more people would benefit. It's still rather hard to find that good content on the "New" section that deserves some attention and interaction, but it's been getting better from what I saw in the past week or so, which is great.
Hopefully Hive will grow into a better place, where awesome content is easy to discover and reward properly.
You can probably count that on one of your hands.
Close to none in other words.
It would be an interesting experiment, what would happen, if the blockchain would stop paying rewards for 1 month.
We would see the reality, and the liars would definitely/certainly expose themselves.