We sacrifice capital appreciation in exchange for content with the HOPE, that people will write things they like, and cherish the HIVE they have earned.
and not just that but that the content brings people from outside of hive to our front-ends, something close to no one even bothered to try ever since posh. That is quite literally one of the main ideas behind the author rewards pool.
instead we get autovote farming, vote selling through delegations (@eds-vote and many more potentially), authors earning rewards for no effort they'll have a super easy fun time dumping cause they got it for free, etc.