Voting is a very personal thing. We each get to decide what deserves a vote and that can be based on quality, friendship or a desire to play the system. As it stands the Steem community is far too small to really be considered representative. A few big players and the vote bots control most of the voting share. I stopped doing automatic votes as I want full control of what I vote on. There are people creating art, music, writing who I think deserve to earn more. For many of them it's their job whilst most of us are really just playing around in our spare time. It's possible for a busker with a smartphone to make more than a band who spent a year in the studio, but maybe that's what the community wants. Rewards do not have to be based on effort.