July 4th is not when the pizza gets passed out, but when you get paid an extrordinarily high amount of bitcoin just for doing something as mundane as delivering a pizza, or running a program on a laptop, or in this case, posting a story or link or just upvoting a post. It's a celebration of the lucrative early days of bitcoin.
https://steemit.com/steem/@tuck-fheman/steem-life--vol-4--random-shitThose dollar values you see are how much in bitcoin they will get paid out on July 4th. after July 4, the difficulty increases making it harder to mine, just like what has happened to bitcoin over the years
The guy in the link is looking at 100 bucks just for drawing a comic. Pizza delivery is much more perilous!
If we want to bring bitcoin to the masses, then we must market it positively, and celebrating the fun and free early bitcoin years is the perfect way to show the people just how innocent and harmless and fun that bitcoin was as a kid. Bitcoin is all grown up now and is like the 40th largest organization on earth by marketcap, and people hate large cap companies nowadays so its good to remember bitcoin as a fun loving youth with a small marketcap.