That's actually how the stupid Helium network was setup.. it used to (maybe still does?) provide rewards for setting up a hotspot and much much less for data throughput so it was basically a big grift to sell miners. Then they gave a huge proportion of the earliest miners to their executives and family members so that commoners buying miners were basically just funneling money to the execs.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahemerson/2022/09/23/helium-...