I think you are not understand the token mechanic that is supposed to work behind the downvotes. Upvotes means someone thinks you should be earning more, downvotes means someone thinks you should be earning less. Up-downvotes are used to have the community to come to an agreement on the value of your post. This is how this is supposed to work. However, many content creators think they are entitled only to upvotes and anything regulating this to have the community come to an agreement on some post payout is taking money away from them. This is not how this works. The inflation belongs to everyone, so, the stakeholders have the duty to regulate the distribution (with up AND downvotes).