What is VALUE and what is PRICE of a Steemit post, my dilemma + 8 r...

I've been thinking about this lately. There's a motivational saying used in sport circles:

You get back only as much as you are willing to put in...

...read, you need to work hard to get your rewards. That brings me to our common friend named Steemit. Nice Martin, great use of personification here! 6 years out of gymnasium and you could still write better essay that your sis' @zzuzza :D Back to the topic now... I'm sure many of of us have almost love-hate relationship with him. Why hate though? Well I mean, not necessarily hate, but we've all experienced that bitter feeling of not getting rewards for the work we've put in to the post.

Price of Steemit post

To create a post, we have to pay a price. We're not paying it neither in fiat currency, nor in cryptos. There's one more currency in the world - and it already reached the biggest mass adoption possible. It's equivalent of satoshi is called a second and its name is TIME. We pay for our posts with time. How big the price is depends on us but we all have to pay something.

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Value of Steemit post

Well I think there are actually 3 types of values of Steemit post:

Subjective value- value of post in our eyes AKA rewards we'd be happy with
Objective value - value of post in eyes of someone else AKA what he thinks your post is worth
"Official" value - paid-out value counted in SBDs and SPs we get after 7 days

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Price:value ratio

Here are also 2 scenarios:

Bitter scenario - we've paid high post prize to create our post but the "official" value of it is much lower than the subjective one.
Sweet scenario - I'm not saying shitty post, but a post which didnt take as much time to produce (it's prize was low) gets very high "official" reward.

Why I'm writing this

Just because I'm ashamed :) Prize I had to pay for my two previous posts was very small. And yet I'm hoping to get a big reward because of the dma.nia tag I've used. I've just created meme and paid for it 3 minutes. It doesn't feel right. But actually why? I've just done 100% rational decision to go there, where prize:value ratio inclines to lucky scenario. So was it right? I guess it all comes to what our goals on this platform are. And I don't actually know why I'm here. And sometimes another point of view helps so I thought you might actually tell me :D

Here are data for you

Are you here to make some extra money? - Yes
Do you like writing? - Yes
Have you ever had a blog before (just for the joy of writing) - No
Did you like memes before dmani.a? - Yes
Did you make more than 5 memes in your life before dmani.a? - No
Are you willing to use bidding bots - Yes
Do you feel bad for using bidding bots - Yes
Can you always pay a big price for writing your posts - No (my injury is 90% healed-up so I'm getting back on daily evening training schedule soon)

Soo? Does anyone know what my appropriate actions on Steemit should be?

Thanks for reading!Martin

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What is VALUE and what is PRICE of a Steemit post, my dilemma + 8 rapid fire YES/NO questions