The problem with that scenario however is the "Flag" feature, and the community itself who, in an effort to fight copyright infringement and plagiarism, have downvoted normal social media behaviour into oblivion.
You don't understand, plaguarised material is being downvoted for legal reasons.
The law says you can quote other people's material in snippets known as "fair use"), but you can't make money off.
Copypasta of other people's stuff to earn money on steemit without permission of the owner of the material or sharing the proceeds with them is a crime.
What you are advocating - rampant theft of other people's stuff to make money, is a crime and will likely get steemit shut down. It takes only one disgruntled author to sue and that's it for this platform.
This is NOT a normal social media site because money is involved.