“Does a musician buy the seats and play in front of an empty house? No”
This is exactly what these folks are doin. Steemit has had some big namers in YouTube coming over (&furiouspete123 and many others, first one to come to mind) to join D.tube. This is just a start of the huge wave I believe. Yet some probably look at the trending page and go wow that is neat, then leave. Great bloggers get overshadowed by a meme that used bidbots, a picture of some coffee with very minimal words typed. This is a huge problem for the future of Steemit.
Unfortuntiy when there is $$ involved greed takes over and morals and values get kicked to the curb. It’s all about getting that $$.
Greed? These folks are working so they can make thousands instead of millions. It's not greed. They just don't know what they're doing and those who buy the votes aren't the sharpest tools in the shed either.
The people using the bidbots are trying to get more $$ than they would without them. So it does have some greed behind it. Sharp or not they are still after that $$ so it is greed.