That's true and I agree - when you work on a post for hours and get only 1.50 or a bit more it sucks, but it is as it is.
Some people like your / my posts and some don't. Sometimes a whale likes our posts and most times they prefer others.
That's sad, especially when I see the earnings of other photo posts with in my eyes bad photos while I spend several hours per day in photo editing. But I also see other, much better photos than mine here which get even less upvotes, so I can only be glad and say once again "it is as it is", and when the Steem raises to $ 10 it all will be good 🙂
A !BEER has to be cold and a !COFFEEA has to be hot to taste good and not !DERANGED 😉
