Catching up in STEEM

Opinion piece as always.
There are no bad actors, or evil players, just other steemians. The ones I'm talking specifically about in this instance, are the ones making 125%+ curation rewards average and continuing to "invest" more time or money into steem.

A month or so ago there was an article I came across that mentioned if you were to continue to purchase Bitcoin from the peak to today, at a fixed rate every 2 weeks, you would be in the green. This was at around $4500? $6000? If you remember, or Google it, let me know in the comments.

That bit isn't the main part of my article today, today I want to talk about keeping up with the Joneses... Or other steemians who are the GOOD players in this instance that stayed with and used tools available on the platform to leverage those massive gains in valuable steem power.. not just from upvote bots or curation trails of their own, etc... But also from continued BTC or fiat purchases regularly, as well as things like running a witness node, writing "quality" articles, comment whoring... Etc.. there is a countless number of examples to "get more" from the platform. Quality in this instance can be anything from shitposts to things like reviews, observations, lessons, show and tell, etc.. quality comes in many flavors. But how much is enough to gain more then the curve? Well...
https://codepen.io/sn0n/pen/gNyQNx
This is with Max self upvotes for a year. I think I did that right (current me in comments), but as you can see, after a year that 10,000 is like 11,180... 11% interest. But remember, power users don't just self-upvote, they maximize past that, with head hunting bidbots and others... So that 11.18k could be more like 12-13k.... and that's without steadily buying more steem at an average over time... Which would make it almost exponentially higher, cuz big words and math!! So, shit post and Max upvote yourself daily if you will, but know that some are power users who have real gains AND appear more,.. "presentable" to the general public without all those selfie votes... but, where does that leave a casual investor? Discouraged, it sounds like work... What about to a whale? Opportunity. Now, if only we could get casuals yelling Soo loud about their own laziness... Infecting the views of whales... But Rob I hear you shouting, I know, we don't want whale investors, we want more tools and uses for steem.. and that's where I agree. Forget about fiat, focus on gains.... Like what do you gain from the platform for using the tools the platform is providing.. just remember what happens to those that gamble in dark alleys, sometimes they end up robbed because they weren't paying enough attention or manage their security effectively. The end. Namaste.