With an honest supply and demand

...definitively impossible without property rights.
(Don't hate the messenger...)
The reward is a 'commons'( a failed model except forif you're in a village and 5 participants in a closed system).
Steem/hive is neither a closed system, nor 5 participants.

I makes no difference how much lipstick you use, it's still a pig.
Principles always have to come first, mademoiselle