Wealth concentration among just 35 whales is just a confirmation of that. This wealth concentration might actually prove disastrous for steemit.
I'm actually not concerned about their wealth. They surely worked hard for their money.
It's rather alarming that these few have almost complete control over the influence on the platform. If only a small group is able to decide on what's trending or not, the result is not very representative in the end. Someone who joins the platform and is able to create amazing content may not even be heard if they don't buy themselves in with a decent amount of Steem.
Even if you spend half of your day in chatrooms 'networking', that's still no guarantee to be seen on the site. Besides that from my personal point of view chatrooms are just a waste of time, but that's my personal opinion :-)
If I could address two wishes then these would be:
- redistributing VP towards smaller accounts and
- reorganize the content structure, turning down trending pages sorted by payout and organizing content according to fields of interest instead.
Then equality of opportunity would be reinstalled.