Thank you for clearing that up, yes I guess you're right. If the whales aren't voting then the voting pool is still the same just spread among more users.
I don't know, it's a hard one to call. I definitely accept your points. I agree on fair and equal distribution, but I also think it's important to reward the superstars. Personally, I'm in this for Steemit to become the next Twitter or Instagram, where it goes without saying that every big celebrity has to have an account.
If that happened then the price would blow up so fast that any amount of Steem rewards would be worth a lot. The pennies that people are getting now would become dollars.
Maybe there should be a sliding scale letting authors decide what proportion of payouts to accept, on a voluntary basis, like there is with upvotes? That way if someone is really successful they can choose to only accept a portion of their rewards. Right now it's all or nothing.
Still, I think we need to learn to celebrate wealth here. You never get rich by hating the rich, or money.
YES!
This is the scenario of long term sustainability. I also think this platform has room for other use cases outside of social media. Steemit is awesome, but I think Utopian might be even more powerful. And I think we haven't even scratched the surface.
But the key crucial point in this is we need to buy up SP. We need to demand more of it. Bring more people on. Expand our stakes. Expand the use-case. Steem will only get better the more we use it.
Imagine a world with $10,000 dollar steem where every steempower gives a 1 dollar upvote or more!
We will only get there if this is a positive community. Attacks and bullying can never be tolerated. That comes first, arguing over money is second. We all need to stand up together and say no to that whenever it happens.
It could easily be us any day, and who will help us then?
I've always been advocating people to buy Steem and Power Up from the beginning. That's taking personal responsibility for the equal distribution of power and rewards here.
Oh, also note that you can cancel the power down. I almost did this today. I think I'll wait a few days, or perhaps, get a single payout first so I know how that works.