Too many people here paint with broad brushes.
Some whales are decent people, some whales are average and some are pricks. Just like everyone else in the world.
I judge people based on their actions, not on some random metric like how much Steem they have.
Want my respect? Show me you deserve it, do something for the community as a whole.
Want my contempt? Be a self serving prick who loots the reward pool by upvoting drivel.
That's how a free market works.
That is not the issue. The issue now is about honoring those who worked on this platform and preserved it to this level.
Those who believed on this platform long before we heard about it.
There's a common saying in business, "What have you done for us today?"
Progress demands that one does not rest on one's laurels.