I can increase the block reward to 10000000000 coins per block with a hard fork
would you want to stake then

seriously though what if we change the reward for staking to 20000 coins per block or something.
How about this can you make a faucet? The network will not make blocks solely with staking. No need for any forks or anything of that sort yet. We need something to make transactions.
Passive faucets will cost pennies. You should set them up to send to a random wallet every 25-35 seconds. Problem not solved but the network will at least properly function.