A pay to play system.
I see this as being largely true, those who can buy their way onto the front page will keep getting the huge payouts and people seem pretty content to stand by while the few rule over the many.
As in the real world it's reflected here on steemit, that we want to live a better way, with more equality, but not at the cost of loosing their own share.
Yup, giving up power/control is not desired :P