it is simply a matter of weighted votes. Each user has more money in his votes as he becomes richer. There are users out there who if you send them SBD will upvote you and their worth will be high either because of the steem power they own.

i think the true value of a post cannot be measured in upvotes on steem. i think it is a factor of how many people actually read it and the percentage of good unbiased of readers (in other words high valued but objective).

if we consider that most premium curated sites take around 35$ per month as a subscription, if we read 50 articles then we are paying 70 cents per! but on the other hand digital subscriptions are in millions so their costs are cheaper. so let us bump it up by a factor of 10. will 7$ satisfy?