Well nice to understand better how the maths of smerit during the airdropped merit era was calculated.
But the point still remains many people has negative intention about merit(selling it e.t.c) so they decided to accumulate it.

I don't see the feasible explanation about saying that it hard to see a meritable post in the forum(my own thoughts though) If you scout around you sure would see.
Some try to give merit to people they are familiar with or give it to people they know they might get it back in return. But not to stress this any further I would conclude that merit awarding should be seen as a selfless act and only that way can you be able to give out merit to someone you don't know for the benefit of forum