But, you can('t) earn if you don't have a following and you won't get a following bellyaching about not making any money.
the odd bellyache can attract some one-time support, but the incessant rarely does and eventually loses more than it is worth.
It all comes down to expectations.
Definitely. And then, we are driven by incentives. If we do not know what we are looking for, we tend to act on autopilot and that is more often than not, average. The incentives that drive us on autopilot haven't likely got us to where we want to be, which is why we are probably looking for an alternative to begin with.
Am I wasting my time? Well, to be honest, I have met some pretty cool people on here so even if I lose everything, which is possible, but, not probable, I 'll have that.
Yep, and even at zero value, there is an inbuilt game on Steem that doesn't exist on other medias, and earning tokens is always fun, which is why pretty much every game utilizes them.