The people who are making money on Steemit have a combination of three benefits:
1) Got in at the start and built their presence organically Wrong. I just started 2 weeks ago and have made over $850.
2) Have large amounts of Steem Power to dictate the direction theirs and others posts go Wrong. I started with the amount of SP they give you when registering (I think $10 worth)
3) Have a reputation among the whales Wrong again. I am yet a lowly forum troll like you.

So as of now there are a couple of ways to earn "$250 for a simple comment". You can fight against the thousands of other posts making pennies per post (despite having content similar in quality to top posters) and hope you somehow break through to a larger audience/profit. You can engineer (beg, whore, etc) your way into favor of the whales. This is a nice strategy... one that has made me and others hundreds to thousands of dollars. If you want to cry about it not being easy to do, then simply don't use Steemit. Do you really need to cry about it on Bitcointalk for eternity?

You can buy in at the peak of a bubble to hopefully recover your investments before the bubble pops and you are left with nothing. You can't tell the future. Many people thought Eth was a bubble when it was much lower in market capitalization. Steemit has much more use than Ethereum at the moment, and is growing much quicker with a more broad userbase.

None of those scenarios sound enticing. I'm going to stick to doing what I'm doing where I'm making steady crypto profits. In the meantime, I'm also going to explain why Steemit is a bullshit scam so others don't waste their time with it only to perpetuate the profits of the dubious whales the top heavy economy favors. It is sad that you could be the reason someone doesn't try Steemit and make hundreds of dollars like I have. I hope you feel happy with yourself? Good job, you cost them money (assuming they gave it an honest effort and don't quit and cry after being unsuccessful for a day or two.)