The times when you earned 1000$ for a post are not coming back. It was the privilege of early adopters, when price was high due to speculation but participation was low, so reward pool was split between few accounts. Now even if Hive reaches 100$, it will do so only as a result of higher adoption, which means bigger reward pool will be split between even bigger amount of users. Unless you are living in a country where 1$ a day makes or breaks your budget, you will likely never see substantial rewards for posting. The value of Hive as a blogging platform is not in that you can earn for your posts, but that you own your account and your content, and you cannot be censored.
- If you are referring to the fact that whales have more influence on the platform due to their voting power, and it would be better if something else than wealth was taken into account when votes are calculated, then you are not alone to point that. No one proposed alternative solution that could not be easily gamed, though.
There is zero correlation between earnings as an author and amount of HP you have. Even if you could point out some examples where there might be such connection, it is rather result of "social standing" (such account is likely to be an old one and other whales might know the user personally and might want to vote for their posts) and it is definitely nowhere near linear - whales are six-seven orders of magnitude bigger than plankton, the differences in post rewards span 4 orders at best (between .10 and hundreds of HBD).
The big accounts earn on curation as part of their investment - they would actually most likely prefer to just earn that passively as effective curation takes time, so they frequently end up redirecting votes to hbdstabilizer or delegate their power to services that do curation for them. Unless you employ the bot it is hard to squeeze your voting mana properly. The plankton falls under dust vote threshold (and rightfully so, otherwise it would incentivize Sybil attacks) therefore earning nothing on curation. It is actually "the middle class" that is in best position, since you earn the most on curation by digging out articles that are so good, yet underappreciated, that other people would not mind voting for even outside optimal voting window. - There is no automated voting system as part of Hive platform. Such bots are result of independent work. One of the goals of Hive devs is to make creation of independent apps for Hive as easy as possible, which inevitably includes bots for voting.
- Hive is not just for blogging, far from that, yet you are proposing to remove incentives from everything other than that. Such move would be extremely harmful to the platform and won't happen. Personally I'd prefer if curation rewards were removed completely, because people should just vote for whatever they like instead of trying to maximize their gains, but that portion of inflation should be redirected to interest on HP (and maybe a bit to authors).