You know we all have this conceptioyof everybody earns on steem, the truth is no not everybody can earn from steem especially content creators. If individuals with high upvote power don't upvote your content you can't and won't earn a dime on Steemit. Now if you resort to using upvote bots, most bots don't perform well and as result don't give any rewards to its users. Earnings on Steemit is luck for beginners.