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Most low-SP users will never 'organically' catch up with the whales, so they will remain relatively weak.
The only way for them to successfully participate in voting will be to pay hard cash for more SP. Probably this is supposed to create demand for STEEM. Not with me though, at most I'll mine SP but that's it.
I refuse to pay for power others gained by just mining early :)

You can always create content. There's no barrier to entry or accumulation of SP that way ;))