It seems like a few paradoxes:
Whales would like to sell their votes but they voted for the hard fork which made vote selling not profitable.
Whales would sell their RC's but they would rather give them away.
RC's would be worth a lot of money but synergy between whales and plankton would make transactions more valuable, and rcs about as 'valuable' as right now (enough to make spamming the network as a nobody a worthless endeavor, more or less one of the reasons why they exist).
In one post you implicate the whales as thieves and in another as benevolent self regulating guardians. Riddle me this, is consensus above all else, or is there anything that stands above that?