I can understand your sentiments @logic because I myself is not earning like what many does here. I am also longing to be voted by the whales because its not easy to create a good quality articles and then just lost under the sea but we came here for free, nobody force us to join here.
Let's just refrain from expecting too much and enjoy the platform.
I was tempted to join by false advertising. I had no clue that my role here was majorly to help these specific whales to shade their profit driven scheme. Not all whales are like this. Only specific few.