Steem is heavily weighted towards the top.
More stake, more money goes to you.
This is needed in the early life of the platform.
If it wasn't this way when the market cap was 17m somebody could have swooped in and bought enough to really matter in the math.
Were they to act against the platform's interest there would be little that anybody with less stake could do.
Now, as part of that, when whales vote EVERYBODY ELSE'S influence on the reward pool is diminished.
Before the hardforks very few people mattered in the math.
After the hard forks the top still mattered most, and self voting was in their best interests.
As it was before, selfvoting had to take place in teams to really matter.
That way, one account couldn't rule the roost without some other accounts colluding to stop it.
Ergo,
When you beg a whale for a vote, or buy one from one, or team up to be one, you diminish the influence of everybody that doesn't play along in your reindeer games.
'So, what?', you say, that is how the world works.
Well, I'm sure you would agree that most of us are here because we don't like 'how the world works'.
Yes?
We would also be blind to not see that those that like it this way are here among us.
If we want to succeed crapitalistically, they help.
But if we want to change the way the world works, we have to think from the perspective of the new paradigm.
Are you doing that?
Have a perfectly peaceful day.
Keep working, stop paying. No war, but the class war!!