I am interested in why people don't try at all. It is weird.

Exactly. I tried to convince a group of friends of mine to move over to Steem in the summer of 2017. Had they done so while completely ignoring any potential to earn and while continuing to shoot shit just like on Facebook, they'd probably all have accounts worth at least hundreds of dollars by now. Come next bull run those accounts could be worth thousands of dollars. Why turn all that down? The response I got was either a flat out refusal to consider moving or deafening silence.

That was such a shocking experience that I don't think I will ever recover from. I lost a great deal of respect for all these people. In that circle of people, some are "critics of capitalism". Facebook is probably the worst possible example of an exploitative giant social media corporation powerful enough to distort democratic processes in nearly every country on Earth - and demonstrably willing to do so. Yet, these people continue flapping their gums about evil capitalists while demonstrating total impotence even as consumers regarding choosing a social media platform. They are not even useful idiots. Just idiots.