Thank God for seeing this part of your comment. Content creating minnows need rewards - sbd is generated by content and the only way for poor people to get on here - the only way to get STEEM without investing.

SBD is the "rare coin" only generated by content. If that is not of value here - what is? Lots of minnows getting rewards and creating good content is what makes the platform appealing to bigger fish who buy their way in and grow the place.

Do we want lots of people posting here or not? It's complicated enough without trying to understand the money and how it is generated. 

If I get another weight loss author to try to post here - I'm going to tell her she can reach her audience and needs to make $10 rewards on a post to get the "do follow" for Alexa. I'm not going to tell her to figure out the cash flow of the place.