What I gather from that is that anything of value should get a merit. That's also why you may award more than 1 per post. It seems like the scarcity problem is being worked on, so let's just give it time.
In that case my suggestion would be limit the number of merit per post from 50 to maybe 5 and set a limit between individual users. In addition increase the number of merit sources substantially while reducing the number of smerit each source gives to ensure a fairer distribution.