All of the post rewards come from a pool that is ultimately generated by the stake that everyone on the blockchain holds. This means that the larger stakeholders technically generate more of the rewards that are paid out to everyone via their own investment - with the exception of top witnesses who get paid a lot of hive just for running a relatively simple server. This is essentially the justification for the downvote capacity we all have - the more stake you have, the more you risk and the more ability you have to influence the policing of the network. This isn't well explained to most people though and definitely not something that new users expect.
The main cause of free downvoting being introduced was to combat spam and the selling of upvotes on the network which makes the experience significantly better - so while downvoting is not perfect, it did solve other annoying problems.
Maybe there is another solution that will work better, it's definitely good to keep running that conversation!
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My comment had nothing to do with my earnings. I find it totally normal that newbies get little rewards the time that they find their way through and start staking, delagating, witnessing etc. My comment of getting that fb feeling comes from my own experience of being born and bred American then moving away for half of my life and living where people still have a "life" which is not on the net. Then seeing my cousins as well as old friends back home retrograde back into the immaturity of high school because fb is a popularity contest that gives popular people the power to crush the not-so-popular and control what they might not be able to control in real life. I see that refound immaturity here and that is what I find very sad. I can't stand control freaks which is better iterated in French who use the word "maniaque". This word comes from the word manic which is used to describe the manic phase in bipolar disorder. Maniaque all by itself means a clean freak. A control freak is a maniaque de contrôle. French women are control freaks but more in real life because they've never had much power. In the U.S. people have become internet maniaques because they no longer have the social life they had before the internet 30 plus years ago. And downvoting is part of that tendancy.