Also, being an early miner in any protocol is going to have advantages. I know people who mined 50 BTC block rewards on a home computer. But over time, early miners sell. They got it fairly. This is an unavoidable circumstance when it comes to any system.
Yes, I agree, this happens with all chains, and in fact pretty much all investments. Some will get in early; some of it is pure luck, some of it is folks who are busting their ass with market research and being active in communities. People are simply born at different times...nothing we can do about that!
And more broadly, there is no such thing as a perfect system, all monetary systems have flaws, it is unavoidable. And even MORE broadly speaking, there is no such thing as "fair", as everyone has different beliefs on what is fair or not. Nobody owes anyone anything, those that did well here at HIVE can control their votes and HP however they like, with no obligation to anyone.
Sure they can. And I can abstain from investing in HIVE if I think their behaviour doesn't contribute to a higher value of the HIVE token in the long term (and for example instead of that choose to become a Splinterlands whale).
I also don't owe HIVE anything and will criticize big HIVE stakeholders and the effect of their actions on the platform whenever I please.
Furthermore, I wouldn't really compare the situation of early Bitcoin investors (who have no option to harass smaller users) with the one of a social network.