We should be blaming ourselves for the slow on-boarding of new users. There are free* services that allow anyone to create a Steem account.
(*) There is a .5 STEEM fee, set by the witnesses, to create a new account. Also, the new user would need some SP (~9+) delegated for bandwidth reasons.
The problem is getting people on Steem... everytime i'm trying to tell someone to join steem i always get the same question: "where does the money come from?" after explaining it i always get the same reply: "sounds like a scam or ponzy scheme"... maybe i should get better friends xD
You should ask them where Facebook gets all its billions of dollars from ...
That might be wise.