No one ever said this should be easy. And lets be honest, anyone can quit their day job and do Steemit full time. All you need to do is work the bid bots and you can easily make enough to live off. But when you have a system that constantly increases in difficulty it becomes self defeating. For me its less about the philosophy of whats fair, and more about lets not have a system that is doomed to gradually wither simply because of a coding error. Or maybe coding misjudgement might be fairer.