Steemit post length fetish

All the Steemit tips and instructional videos seem to point to the equation of length=value.

You're basically telling me, that the more I can get someone to waste their time on something that could be concise and simple, the better?

Please tell me I've gotten the wrong impression that only the inane babblers can make any money here, please tell me that not only the people who have spent hundreds if not thousands of dollars can make any money here.

Not that it would surprise me, after all, its the same world, where the rich get richer, the loud ones get famous and rich, meanwhile anything meaningful is fated to be disregarded, forgotten, unseen, unappreciated.