In the world of crypto, there is no easy way for us to have without giving efforts and more emphasis on it. These new merit system, of course , it is not easy to acquire, we should improve ourselves that we really know what is our doing, then readers would appreciate it and thats the way we could earn merits from them.
In terms of earning merits your right there's no easy way, but if you are a good and quality poster you can't possibly gain this without pleasing the other users. Other than that if your post is very fruitful I'm sure many people given you a merits. (Sorry I was not intention to double send the merit)