Good point my friend. That's exactly the way I feel about Steem. Right now it's like pay to win depending on how much money you have to buy Steem/Steem Power for influence, hence the whales and crypto youtubers are currently dominating the platform. I came in to Steem with almost nothing invested. You really have to work very hard if you're just starting off in here. Right now I see a lot of copy/paste posts, people seem to think that if they just copy/paste photos or articles that they can get rich overnight. Personally, I'm treating the platform like my blog. Just take more time on your posts and make sure it's quality content that you made, if other people on here see that, they will upvote and follow.