I have done freelancing and so I can relate to the fact how it feels to have a name of someone else on content written by you.
You own nothing of it. The royalty is theirs. They are, at times dumb, but people appreciate them.
I agree that the trust of a community has greater worth than some dollars. I think it's about mindset. Some people come to earn as much as they can until they are caught. After being caught, they go on finding another method of cheating
The amount of effort they have to expend cheating people to buy an illusion could have been channeled into building a personality people don't mind supporting even with the imperfections. There's a lot of people that can't blog well here, and I don't really mind them earning a lot of rewards even with the lack of skill IF I see these people going out of their way and making friends with strangers, engagement and doing the stuff that makes this network socially active. That's more valuable that them posting content no one is going to look back after 24 hours.
Right. The connections we make are more worthy than the content we create.
These are the connections that benefit us in the long run