Morning neighborino! I noticed it's hard to earn any money unless you have a whale up vote your posts. Do you think over time this will even itself out as more content creators grow in wealth and influence? It makes sense that that would be the trend at hand. As long as whales are actively voting on users content it will distribute the voting power. As long as they aren't just voting on their own accounts more and more quality content creators will accumulate influence that better spreads Voting power around the pool of active steemit.com contributors.
It's great that whales lose nothing for up voting content they like other than voting power which replenishes itself. This means they are likely to vote and spread the love around the community in topics they like. This will become more condensed as regular holders have more influence and something akin to moderators will likely form around categories. Promoting community involvement and communication.
As the voting power becomes more evenly distributed I think we will see more and more articles earning $10-$40. At the moment there doesn't seem to be much of an in between. It's either pennies or hundreds. I think once this evens out it will greatly improve category diversification and involvement.
Please chime in with your thoughts on the subject!