Two things that quickly come to my mind:
1.) Why would the following question apply?
Does that implicate 'No money, no talking?'
As far as I am concerned, everybody can make a free account via Steemit and post whatever he or she likes?!
Getting high visibility and high rewards is of course a completely different chapter.
Of course not every user will get a huge payout - BUT EVERY USER CAN!
2.) By far the largest amounts of SP held in single accounts belong to STINC, right? They don't vote with those accounts for most of the time as far as I am concerned. And if, mostly on "declined payout" posts. So the distribution of "activly used SP" should be way better. Plus the distribution will become better over timer anyways, as @aggroed has pointed out!
Disagreed. The equality of opportunity was given back in summer 2016 when a hundred of people where sharing their content on steemit.com. As you can see studying the above mentioned numbers, only 0,23% of the users decide what's valuable and what's not. That's not representative at all. I created a test account by myself a few months ago just to see how it works when you start from zero again. It's amazingly frustrating. The design of the page makes your content just disappear.
I have no idea what Steemit Inc is planning to do with their stake. There is no official information on that, so I won't speculate about it either.
I know people who joined weeks ago without any connections and have gotten three digit payouts without using boosters - so it is possible. I didn't say it is easy. But I don't think it should be easy.
I wasn't speculating about what they do with their SP. It's a fact that it hasn't been used for voting in the recent past. As far as I can see, their main stake is used for delegations to new registrations and projects they want to support.
Of course you may be right about the distribution. But as the power is used at the moment, way more than 0,23% of all the users decide whats valuable and what is not.
Even more reasons to redistribute power! Parked VP doesn't serve anybody.
Actually it does serve everybody since it makes their voices relatively stronger when it comes down to deciding who gets which part of the reward pool.
Do you expect STINC to just airdrop their parked VP?
I expect the sun coming out today's afternoon and catch some nice waves. Then I'll have a barbecue with some friends. What Steemit Inc will do in the meantime: I have no idea. But I guess you gonna find out that one, too.