The oligarchy only gobbles up the majority of the rewards pool because Hive is broken in the way it is.

The oligarchy:

Yeah?

Edicted is the oligarchy?
Taskmaster is the oligarchy?
Lordbutterfly is the oligarchy?
Trumpman is the oligarchy?
Bozz is the oligarchy?
Tarazkp is the oligarchy?

Again you are one of the numerous users to fall victim to the "it sounds right to me" mindset.

Your words make perfect sense to me...
But the actual data provided proves the opposite and it continues to be ignored.
Perhaps this is the real epidemic: people insisting that the system is broken and ragequitting the network when it's actually working exactly as intended.

Whales are not taking the lion's share of the reward pool.
Why must you keep insisting that they do?
It's not even up for debate.