" Everyone only upvoted because they made money with this."

Here's the problem. That is absolutely false, provably so, always has been, and this was known before the system was designed.

There are no financial rewards for voting on Reddit, Fakebook, or on any platform that preceded Steem, but voting has strongly featured on all social media because that's a lot of what social interaction is about.

What curation rewards actually are is a deceptive mechanism to reward whales.

I have never - ever - cast a vote because of rewards. People do not actually have opinions because it makes them money. If they claim they do, they are lying in order to get money.

Society actually long pre-existed money, and is far more valuable in every sense than money. Were Hive structured to effect societal values the fake rewards for curation would not exist. Steem was structured to make the founders rich, and it did. They're gone now, and we're on Hive, because the exit of the founders removed the core purpose of Steem, and caused it to die.

Hive needs to restructure it's rewards and governance to reflect the actual valuations society depends on, or it too will die. Governance being subject only to financial influence ensures that when monopoly arises Hive will become the sole possession of the monopoly, exactly as did Steem. Presently the whales that ninjamined their stakes exercise that monopoly power over governance, all ~dozen of them or so (if you count inactive whales, a couple dozen or three), and do so for reasons known only to them.

In time their stake will pass to others, and the reasons Hive is governed will become the reasons those new stakeholders have. This is the factual reality of DPoS as undertaken on Hive presently.