Before Steemit it was a lot harder to get paid for writing great content. You often had to set up a Wordpress blog put ads on it just to get paid pennies for writing great content. Unless you had a following of a several thousand people making serious earnings from a blog seemed very difficult, and a following like that would often take years of persistence to gain unless you already had some fame.
Lack of earnings from their high quality posts used to make writers frustrated
Tim Ferriss's book The 4 Hour Workweek details ways that one can increase their productivity output and only have to work a minimal amount per week to become successful.
Although it is still difficult to make a fortune on Steemit, it has become a lot more feasible to earn the amount of money one deserves for writing great content than it was in the past.
It is now a lot more feasible to earn the amount of money one deserves for writing great content
Creating a following on Steemit through writing quality content is definitely a way to make great passive income, and definitely could pay for groceries and many other things in life. Combined with creating e-books, and various other techniques one could definitely escape the 9-5 workweek.