I really don't know how it's gong to affect what I earn, but I'm not too bothered about making less. We need people to use their votes to restore some balance. Bid bots will be less profitable and we have the free downvotes to adjust rewards without losing voting power. Let's use the tools we are given to get rewards where they are deserved.
There is no totally fair system. Not sure it's much different to your beloved capitalism that tends to shit on the little guys :)
But the whole point is, people will use their limited funds to curate high earners bilge in the hope that the high earner will drop a big vote on them which rarely happens, however, for the high earners this is what's known as the snowball effect, as they roll along they get fatter and fatter from all the tiny snowflakes they collect. I would have thought with your socialist leanings you would be spitting feathers at the capitalist (Tory) proposals within these changes?
Votes on Steem(it) are a bit of a myth tbh. I did a post that had 1162 votes, let's just let that sink in, ONE THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-TWO! and yet it only earned $11.65 disgusting if you ask me on a platform that claims to be better than Wordpress, Facebook etc. by rewarding authors for their work. What do I have to do? Get 500,000 votes? When 1162 votes does not even put me in this illustrious $20 plus bracket and if the past 2 years are anything to go by, I'll never be in the $20 plus bracket and now that they intend to penalise low earners such as myself I'll earn even less for spending two, three or four hours on Steemit.
I know you love the platform, mate, I know you work extremely hard both on your own content and in supporting other members but this hardfork is wrong imo, it will only benefit the high earners most of whom are already raking it in from Youtube and Instagram and yet want to squeeze the last few dollars feeding out of low earners.
If you want some changes to Steem we should be discouraging people from upvoting anyone on the End-Scale of Dolphin and above. We should be telling Minnows to only vote for other Minnows and Low-End Dolphins. People with multiple accounts should be blocked or a way found to blow away any upvotes they get. People offering games, quizzes or Upvote services need to be scrutinised and where required forced out because these people are taking valuable dollars from users. Bots probably should be banned but then there are one or two good bots I suppose?