hi @stellabelle thank you for your feedback. At the moment everything is about money and yes, it can be very frustrating, if you don´t match the interests of at least one whale, but I think this will change in future. Because of those projects you mentioned above and because of a general change of possibilities and interests. Imagine a steem based yelp, where users get curation-rewards for their comments from a restaurant with enough steem power (I just discussed that with @fabio) or some kind of gamification. Please have a short look at the pyramide and the matched interests in the first part of this concept. Sure this is only a suggestion, but if there is a product-diversification (steemit.com, steem-yelp.com, steem-poker.com steem-whatever.com ...) I think it´s possible to have success with steem without being a talented writer ;-)