I can see you treat it as a business and your experience will be very different to mine. You might want to consider working with the @steemflagrewards team who can let you know of people who are abusing your service and ought to be blacklisted for the good of Steem.

I realise people chose to follow you, but new users see the Trending page first and many will follow any users they see there. It doesn't mean they will actually look at your posts or ever comment, so the follower number is not an indication of quality. I accept that most of my followers are inactive, but I value those who contribute and they get votes from me.

It's not all about jealousy. Many of us want to see this platform grow and achieve its potential to change the world. Having a few people getting all the profit is not helping that.

I'll look you out next time for a chat.