because Karma is caught in a catch 22 situation (or is that Catch 44?)

1)
At 1 satoshi its is impossible for any coin to have liquidity on trading markets because the price cannot move up easily and cannot move down.
Karma was only tradeable when it was being traded against Litecoins in the 22-100+ litoshi range.

add to that.. if the price ever does go up it will simply be knocked back down again by dumpers who stole the coins from Cryptsy and other hacks.

2)
As a currency Karma is as useful as Zimbabwe dollars. A loaf of bread costs about K 76,900 at today's prices.

3) the people who hold the most Karma are not contributing to the community in any way whatsoever.. not even saying hello let alone using their karma for good purposes. They have either abandoned the coin or are simply too greedy to even spread goodwill let alone the good message about Karma. A community that does not even live up to its mission statement only discourages other people from joining the community.

4) with a block reward of 10,000,000 (it started out at 510,000,000 i.e. 51X the current rate) it is almost pointless to mine karma because miners benefit least of all from any increase in the value of Karma. It's actually easier and cheaper to mine another coin and then sell that to buy Karma. That means that the network is far less secure than it could be.