There are ways to make a living on this forum. It takes investment and a lot of it. You can invest money to build up your Steem power. I have just invested my faucet earnings into building up my Steem power. I also invested my failed Bitconnect investment into this forum. Also you can invest computing power through being a witness which pays in Steem. Those are really the only ways to make any money that I can see. Even if you have the best content in the world. You have to have the upvote power to make your posts worth something.
I think giving to charity is a good idea. You produce great content and I love reading it. I think your account will grow, I have had my frustrations with growth on this site, but it has been a hard road to walk. It took me for ever to get my vote to $0.01, I am knocking on the $0.02. Maybe I will start to see faster growth soon.
Meh, if I can help one person then I'd be happy.
I watched an interview recently with the guy who started Minds (they're experimenting with crypto now) and he said Steemit was great except for one thing, the whale economy. The only way to be successful here is to find a whale and get them to follow and upvote you, that's the only way to make money on Steemit (his words, not mine).
It is a true statement.
Now that Mind is flirting with crypto, I expect to see a large exodus from Steemit, their monetary system is a lot more egalitarian than here. All votes on Minds are 'equal' no matter how high or low you are. I've been on Minds for about a year before here.
Only way to make money on steemit is to pay a bot whale to vote for you. because all whales sell their votes. no one here cares about quality of contents, and those who do dont have enough voting power to make any difference. all those people making big money are buying votes. Steemit is a failed system.
Be careful, I criticised Steemit recently and you should have seen the ensuing shitstorm that happened...only from people who were making money off it of course, everyone else agreed with me, lol.
LOL