Halving actually helps miners more than you think it does. Not the small timers because they won't be getting anything since the difficulty will be increasing to mine one bitcoin whereas the number of bitcoins mined will be going down.

However, the big miners will be taking advantage of this, the transaction fee's are still there and the difficulty will go up so the small miners will have to leave and the big miners will have a bigger share of the mined coins, they may not make as much as they used to but they won't need as many machines as they used to as well to mine bitcoin which means less purchases for mining equipment and less electricity costs as well. Think about it this way, you will be basically spending less but earning less as well, it is less risky that way but rewards are lower too, I think miners will be hurt but not as much as we think.