So what do you want to happen ? You want the whales to gift everybody $1000 a month ? It doesn't work like that. If you want to make money, you will need to find a way to set yourself apart from others. While I was making all these failing posts, I was learning. I know better now how to make a better post. Even though I still suck because even though I am making more money now, it is not that impressive.

There are other ways to make money. There are people that standard upvote you when you reply their posts. Follow those people. They will gift you free money anytime you reply. Follow the posts in the NEW section. Whenever you think there is an interesting post that you think will be upvoted a lot, upvote it so you get curation rewards later.

But you have a very important point though. People are here just for the money. So from that perspective something is wrong with Steemit. Facebook doesn't give you even a penny but everyone (except me ;-)) is on Facebook. So if people prefer to be on Facebook without getting money, than Steemit still lack something.