Seems to be very peculiar logic here. By not buying votes, we are somehow abusing Steem?

How about relegating that duty to those willing to perform the labor of evaluating the content?

Sorry, doesn't compute. You want to relegate the duty of buying votes for profit to who?

To non-invested scums that dump straight to the exchanges?

Your virtue signaling about not buying votes is why content discovery sucks so bad.

Why don't you shame the people selling their votes at a lost instead of those buying them at a profit?

They're invested unprincipled weasels taking a larger cut of an ever shrinking pie.