You know how silly that sounded? Of course they make money if they didn't people wouldn't use them. Doesn't matter the amount it matters they got a return. That return hedges on the amount the post makes and/or they self up vote the post for to ensure maximum satisfactory results for themselves. At someone's encouragement I tried it once, after paying a buck or buck fifty to a bid bot I got a vote...it was something like nine or nineteen cents over what I paid the bot. I think it was nine cents though because the next day I laughed at all that effort for nine cents while the person who encouraged me thought a rate of ten percent on my money overnight was doing great. He insisted no bank would have paid me that. (lol) I guess it's all in prospective. The reality though is this: I would have no problem at all handing out money to someone that I know I am not getting it back from them IF I knew someone else was going to give it back to me instead. Those someone else's are the other people on Steemit, they are going to give this guy his money back that he gave to someone else to turn a profit for him.....think about that.