They are fundamentally different.
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The Sea Creatures of Steem
in which I define whales as
having at LEAST
a half a million Steem POWAH

that's the low side.
the highest estimated value on Steemit is over $78 MILLION.
the top fifty estimated value accounts are whales...over $500,000.

Think about that for a minute.
Now consider that most, if not all, of them have been on Steemit

Since the Beginning!

.
Steemit is not old enough.
No one is bold enough
to

in a little over a year (the age of steemit)
and become a whale.

the twenty most active posters on Steemit.

not a whale to be found.
The closest is

she's not a whale @$121,284 she barely has 1/5th as much as the smallest whale has.
She's a minor Orca.
she joined steemit in June of 2016

by BUYING 100,000 Steam Power. She was never a minnow or a dolphin.
.
Which is my point.
There ARE no home grown Whales...they all bought in with outside money.
That means that they do NOT think like we do.
Their goals are NOT the same goals that ours are.
Consequently
Be careful around whales.
For thou are crunchy
and go good with ketchup
Involve thouself NOT
in the affair of Whales.