Gates is one of the biggest philanthropists of our time. It wouldn't matter though. In this example, he would still get downvoted. You say that they didn't think of these things, but they did. It's up there in the white paper long before anybody ever got here. The community is supposed to correct themselves. They do that through downvotes. Like haejin, Bill Gates might deserve a paycheck for the work that he does, but it is not Steem's responsibility to give it to him. As many followers as Haejin has, his effect on the steemit community as a whole is overall at this point is negative. He is pulling millions from the platform. Don't blame the platform for attempting to work as it should.