That is an old article. I don't think things are as bad now. On the bright side Steem is pretty cheap right now to buy and there is only about 7% inflation per year. My account seems to be doing ok but worst case if things go south I'll just leave the platform and maybe delegate to a bot but most likely I will stick around because even if this old article is mostly correct I think Steemit is still better than Facebook. You get nothing on Facebook.