The fact that some people will never get Merit points is one of its great successes. Looking at your post history you are the type of user that should never rank up.
It is interesting to see users joined topics in Meta, including this one, to complain about merit system unfairness months after the lauch day of merit system.
People have been complaining since day 1, nothing new here. It is true that some people deserve zero merits, but it doesn't feel like there are enough merits for the posts that do deserve them. A lot of worthy posts go unmerited, and if you have to find a merit distribution thread to get it, then that is a problem in my humble opinion.
Of course the experiences of each poster is going to vary, and of course the dynamics of the forum are not the same as when I started four years ago (partly based on the introduction of the merit system, partly based on changes in the crypto space including infighting and pumping of coins, and partly changes in the membership that may be leaning to use this forum as a source of income rather than participating in topics and threads).
Nonetheless, I believe that anyone starting out in the forum or even continuing in the forum in one of the middle ranks can still figure out ways to earn merits (if they believe that earning merits is important). You can also fully participate in the core aspects of the forum, such as posting and reading messages and choosing topics that are interesting to you) without earning merits, too.
I recall that when I started in the forum, hardly anyone paid attention or responded to my posts, and mostly I post in the Wall Observer thread - yet after a while, other posters got to know me better.. some liked me and some didn't and some ignored me (which continues, by the way).
So there can be a variety of responses from other members (and sometimes direct hostility), and still I personally don't tend to adjust my approach too much based on what others think or want me to do, but instead I approach the whole forum participation matter by what I believe (in my own discretion) is important to me at any particular time (which changes over time too).
Anyhow, I think that part of the point(s) that I am trying to make is that it seems likely to me that if you participate in the forum in areas that interest you, and you are enthusiastic about those areas of your interest and you attempt to interact meaningfully with other posters, then sooner or later, other members will notice you and your posts and merits will flow in your direction. Maybe not a lot of merits (or as many as you would like), but getting merits, now, involves posting (interacting) rather than merely reading or playing some more passive role.
I will also concede that there is likely some truth to the fact that it takes merits to earn merits (meaning that the more merits that you receive, then the more likely other posters will merit you); however, even if there are advantages to having merits and having ranks, there are a lot of members who route for the underdog or will be willing to send merits to lower ranked (or lower merited posters) based on the content of the post or even some other aspect of other posts from the member. Sometimes, also the truth of the matter is that some posters will merit you once you have merited them. I will tell you that sometimes I think about meriting a post, but I see that the poster never gives out merits (even though they receive a lot of merits), and then I will weigh against meriting a poster who never seems to give out merits even when receiving a lot of merits (case by case of course, and sometimes, if a posts gets enough attention from me to consider meriting it, I will just merit the post without getting into too much research about the background of the person... in other words, there is quite a bit of variance and discretion in when any particular member decides if to merit a post or a poster).
Furthermore, participation in certain types of threads are not going to be likely to generate very many merits, and perhaps you can appreciate which ones, such as ones in which members are merely seeking bounties and ICO scams and some of that crapy and scammy alt coin pumping nonsense stuff that already exists on the forum.. .but hey, to each his/her own regarding where and how you want to spend your forum time.
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. It seems one has to check every post to determine if it's worth to be answered ... maybe an one-click copy-and-paste checker would be a good "complement" for the Merit system 
