What I've understood you to say is that we have an oligarchy on our hands. Wikipedia is the bathroom walls of the world, and in the stall I stood in, I read,
A business group might be defined as an oligarchy if it satisfies all of the following conditions:
- Owners are the largest private owners in the country.
- It possesses sufficient political power to promote its own interests.
- Owners control multiple businesses, which intensively coordinate their activities.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligarchy
I agree with the sentiment in the post. The Hive is a very small community as I've come to find out. I had figured it had grown substantially from SteemIt offshoots years ago. With only thousands in our ranks, it makes me realize how close we are to the early days of bitcoin in terms of what we're hoping to accomplish-or what I think we collectively want to accomplish-a space where ideas that are valuable are rewarded and ones which aren't valuable are ignored. When I saw the rich list for POB, it made me want to stake POB as fast as possible. As I understand it, the more people there are on the platform, the less value the votes will become as the payout will be diminished. Perhaps I'm wrong...but I can say that when I post a video on 3speak and I get 1 view after a week, and I've done this with a few videos as test cases, it makes me feel like we are very much a tiny baby just born in the world of ideas. For Hive to be worthwhile, it will need to spread to vastly larger audiences.
If the number of minnows get large enough, a whale can be taken down. I agree with the idea you gave of the ants and the elephant. I keep a very large painting of an elephant in my YouTube studio to remind me how to overcome most anything...one bite at a time...