You can take a short or a long term approach to how you handle your power. Love that you are taking a long term approach and investment into Steemit.

Those looking for short term gains are helping fuel the spam issues on Steemit. Paid bots serve a purpose allowing smaller members to have a chance to gain exposure. But reality is they also allow spammers to profit.

While I have been testing paid votes to try and gain some exposure I tend to look at the other posts that are paying for votes. WAY to many of them are stolen content using this paid services to gain rewards that would never happen if human eyes looked at the content.

These posts are the ones that I think make these voting bots an issue for long term success of Steemit. Nobody likes spam and stolen content has an entire realm of legal issues that could potentially be brought down on the steemit platform.

But on the flip side I like that it's at least out in the open over being hidden as likely would happen without the bots. Also probably important that those with high SP have a way to earn vs powering down and dumping it. Think prices would crash very quickly if their income source was taken away.

All that said you aren't stupid IMO, just taking a longer term investment into the system vs going for short term personal gains. By elevating smaller members you are helping build the future of the platform. More members that see success the more members that will be out there promoting steemit. More promotion leads to increased growth and increased values for steem which will be your real long term financial benefit.

Keep helping those smaller then you that are willing to put in the work! You are helping build a better future for everyone on steemit by encouraging good behavior. Thank you for taking this positive approach to the use of the SP you have earned.