I can understand your opinion. There are a couple points I would like to bring up though.

First is I'm paying a high amount to get high reward votes to be listed high and gain exposure I'm buying up SBD on the market to spend which helps the economy and price. I'm not going to lie this usually results in a positive ROI because I like to time my bids during beneficial windows but it has also resulted in a negative ROI I've promoted these posts during bear markets as well at a loss. After you account for a 25% cut to curation and 50% coming in the form of SP not SBD the margins shrink rapidly.

Second point is that the rewarded amount will only ever go to someone else that is paying for it as long as one person is bidding in a window which is pretty much guaranteed to be the case every time. Those bots vote on a timer which uses their vote power as a countdown and then doles out the votes only to those that paid them. Those funds are carved out of the reward pool already by the bot owner's stake and essentially reserved for vote buyers. Any thoughts that I am taking away from hardworking minnows pouring their lives into content just isn't so. I'm competing with other bidders over that stake and anyone else can do it easily too.

If you have a problem with vote selling in general you should really take it up with @themarkymark he does appear to be the largest vote seller on steemit running bots I didn't even know he owned until recently looking into it. The really high paid screen grabs he likes to show were voted on by his bots.

He's the vote pusher, I'm just an addict.