I am with on this in a big way,
However, there is something else we need to take into consideration... lobbyist… With Amazon. Facebook, Kroger's, Safeway, Albertsons, Oil companies, Pharmaceutical -dollars, they can pay for lobbyist who bribes our government and actually write our laws thus keeping tax laws in place that profit the rich no matter what we say...
The system is rigged against us so the best thing we can do is stop going to the Casino and create a system around the corruption.
They can't have a game if we decide not to be their game...
Things like Housing co ops, food co ops, gardens, auto shop cops, etc... can bring them to their knees. Why are we using an Amazon to buy and sell our products???? and a Jiffy Lube to change our oil?
We created the beast lets drive an arrow into it's heart …
Close your Amazon account and go directly to small business for your purchases... Stop playing the stock markets buy real assets , stop using credit. banks cannot survive without it.. Stop using banks for that matter, go to the credit unions,
start a garden with your hated neighbors and bake your own bread and watch how your grocery shopping will change dramatically, you will only need to go to market once month...
find your small farmers and purchase directly... Drive the beast into the ground with a thousand cuts to the ankles! Game Over!
you bring up an interesting point. So the whales are either the corporations or the politicians who write the laws, kind of a mix of both i guess. those of us who are minnows and even dolphins are all just kind of playing their game making them rich.
in regards to how you said we are all playing their game, i wonder if all of us stopped participating in steem period or at the very least stopped upvoting whales just pandering for reciprication which almost never happens anyways maybe we could shift the power a bit and encourage them to share some of their voting power and help the community instead of just helping themselves.
i mean at the end of the day many of them have enough SP to be able to just upvote themselves and earn $1,000 per day but us refusing to play their game could maybe help slant the power back to the people so to speak