All things go through different life cycles. Once Steve had a successful site his efforts mostly went into maintaining it. Once the site is "mature" then people will have to view payouts as "cash", but by the time Steem is mature the market cap may be $100 billion dollars and daily rewards will be $2.7 million dollars. That is a lot of cash to distribute every day.
Those who work today not only profit by rising STEEM prices, but they establish a brand and following which will secure them a larger part of that $2.7 million per day.
I agree. Now is the time to build your brand and build up your Steem. If you work hard now, you will reap a much larger slice of the pie later, when hopefully that pie is much larger! Now we just gotta build to that $100 billion dollar market cap ;)
You got me so intrigued right now. Will sleep and blog tomorrow when I wake up.