By the way Steem is a 0 fee currency. If somebody would create a market for goods and services based on Steem, like
Openbazaar is for Bitcoin.
Then Steem's value would skyrocket. At the moment it's only a social media. But it can be much more than that.
Here's the thing though. It has been almost a year now and so far the only thing steem has going for it is a shitty reddit knock-off.
Dan left a few months back to work on his own thing.
Plus, most of the steempower is held by a few crazy people who tend to only upvote eachother. Right now, there is an account that has ~400,000 SP delegated to it and only serves to push anti-vaccine conspiracies. There's no chance of mainstream adoption when you have wackos like that running around.
There is 0 future for steemit and steem.
Edit:
"But if you earn 50$ for a mediocre article with 50% SBD/SP payout"
Lol, who the fuck is earning 50 for a "mediocre" article? Unless you already have a few whale friends, you will struggle to earn 5 or even .5 on a post