Do you think they do feel guilt over this? I think a lot of the actors are often so self-absorbed that they might not care about those doing the hard yards.

More importantly, a large enough account can have helpers distribute votes.

This is becoming more and more common with large accounts as they just don't have the bandwidth to spend reading - but want their votes to matter where they want to matter.

That's very different here on Hive. One doesn't have to give away anything to help the community.

This will become much more apparent and vital when price moves. There was once a big news story about Dash giving something like 10,000 dollars to help Venezuela, an amount that was going out to them on Steem weekly at the time. Price makes a lot of things far more likely and, a lot can be done, we just have to get there.