If every member hoarded merits and expect to receive from others, then who is going to rank up, everyone will be stuck somewhere, users would not celebrate their milestone merit achievements, members will not get to 10k merits, etc.
Tell about this to those who send merit to the posts of Satoshi, Lauda, Hal, etc. Their accounts have not been active for a long time and they do not distribute anything to anyone, but this does not prevent users from sending merit to their posts. I repeat once again, the activity and distribution of the merit is not a priority for posting evaluation.
If every member hoarded merits and expect to receive from others, then who is going to rank up, everyone will be stuck somewhere, users would not celebrate their milestone merit achievements, members will not get to 10k merits, etc.
We will discuss this when it happens, and not at the level of crazy theories that will never materialize in reality.