The intrinsic values can be equal while the extrinsic value is vastly different. I've heard some interesting comparisons of german historians on this topic. The value of a person can be god-given, but it's also a norm of society. You can switch the people inside of a society, while sustaining practical value exchange rules, but you can't do it the other way around. What does that mean?
That means to me, if history repeats itself:
HIVE would become unequal to others and enforce written and unwritten rules of its own society to become powerful enough to bring more equality within itself - the HIVE, meaning everyone on-chain, or rather 'The Hivers' who follow common rules / 'common chain sense'. The reason for that is, that we would need our content to be valuable and so we can only decided to value it higher and acted that out, as a global society.
Now, isn't that exactly what we're looking at in the latest past? With free Downvotes, strong policing of tags and communities, and empowering/increasing of stake rewards? I got flagged a lot this year, with 0 bad intentions and beyond what I would consider bad acting. But society here has changed, it's undeniable. Money makes the world corrupt, in any shape or form.