As long as people have just used 1 second on the content I am satisfied. I am not into the moral argument though I do think that a larger middle class of working creators would be the best thing that could happen to Steemit. A community is made up of people after all.
But I would very much like to see this idea tested. The more experiments we can go through the stronger the platform, so it is a bit frustrating that Steemit inc is so cotton armed.