@azfix you're right the combined power of all the systems we are not noticing is probably more than the top 10 authors combined from bot networks voting up comments $1 or $5 hundreds of times a day to authors posting on hot topics like this and then getting a lot of upvotes as has happened so far here on this post. None of us can totally separate our selfish motives from our unselfish ones :)
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The problem is that short term selfishness often doesn't lead to long term success. If finally everybody came to the conclusion that it would be much more easy to upvote ones own comments or articles only, the quality of articles would decrease rapidly, new users would be completely frustrated (even more than already now) and the steem price would decrease as well. As long as only few accounts are doing that it may work very well for them - if all are doing it that's the END of Steemit.
It's a bit like the classic prisoner's dilemma.
"The prisoner's dilemma is a standard example of a game analyzed in game theory that shows why two completely "rational" individuals might not cooperate, even if it appears that it is in their best interests to do so."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma