As a common man/steemer it appears to me that the infrastructure of steemit is currently designed to continue rewarding the rich disproportionately which is the operative word here. It should at least start by making "new" the default page not "trending".
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Steemit rewards the already wealthy but that wealth is not measured in $$ but in what you actually have to bring to Steemit. If you have a lot of talent, fame, knowledge, skill, and if on top of all of that you are very pretty, you can do very well on Steemit with enough effort.
But if you think about it, knowledge already is power, beauty already is wealth, talent you might be born with but takes hard work to develop, so in the end the people who do well seem to have earned it even if they were born with some of it. So I compare it to sports where you have the Michael Jordan or Lebron James who are both born gifted but also work harder than everyone else, and then you have a bunch of other players who aren't as naturally gifted but who work really really hard. But compared to almost all of us, they are all naturally gifted and even if we worked all our life we would never make the NBA.
In a way it's like that on Steemit with the trending. Some people trend off talent alone but they have a hard repeating success, some trend off talent and effort and these are the top bloggers who are consistently trending, and then you have some people who never made the trending page but who put in a lot of effort. In my opinion, even people who don't make trending should get upvotes and I think over time as Steem Power is more widely dispersed this might not be as bad.
But, but, but, as @craig-grant says, there is a need to get people to buy Steem Power. In my opinion, gamification techniques need to be implemented to make people power up and also the process needs to be streamlined. Look at Steam for example and how easy it is for people to buy games on that and then look at how hard it is for someone to buy Steem Power on this platform.