In network theory, for many networks including Steemit, if you are a node with lots of links, then it's easier to gain more links. As a new network, ideally people should all join with equal footing and get discovered through the efforts they put into this network. However, you have people who take their previous network to Steemit and immediately have a huge advantage.

This is actually fine to a degree. You should be rewarded for bringing new people to the network. However, as it is, the reward for that is highly disproportionate. It greatly amplifies income inequality. If you're famous and you bring over a few hundred new users and gain a few hundred dollars for that, it's perfectly reasonable, but when you're earning $10,000 while the other new users are earning $0.01, the systematic income inequality is too great.

Now I'm not for communism or perfect equality of payouts at all, but I think the scaling needs to be toned down. There is no post that is literally worth 1,000,000 times as much as another post. Like if the best post pay out 100 times as much a typical post that gets unnoticed, that's much more reasonable. We can still have a free market; just change the scaling of the payouts, and give people without a previous networks more of a chance to get noticed.