"You rewarding yourself break that system."

I am not rewarding myself. I don't get money from using this bid bot, it's just promotion. It uses the same steem that I put into it, to make my content seem a little more popular. There is no real accumulation of wealth, am not suddenly in charge of the keys to the inflation of steem and giving myself all the wealth.

This is how you make it seem.

I am not the enemy in this equation.

Whales will abuse because that is business.

You do what you can with what you have. If bid bots aren't 'legal' anymore then other means will come to the fore to make something be perceived as popular.

Numerous accounts with networks set up that are not in any way honest about voting of content because it is popular are generated by whales. They get votes on content because that's where they want the votes, not because that's what is what the people want.

It's the nature of 'attracting investors' and putting a value on things. This is business. Art and business traditionally do not mix.

It seems that those that have gone ahead and decided to express themselves on here have done nothing more than become content slaves for the whales.

And if you say it's becoming more equal, well good for you, the whales aren't getting smaller and the need for their money is not going away.

A new platform must be generated in which everyone is equal from the start. No new money can be brought in, it must be open source and volunteer based and yes it will have problems. I see this as the only way.