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