In the end, nearly everyone is on this platform mainly to make some money. (how many of the blogs and posts would exist if there was no monetary rewards...)

• Small accounts think binary in $ amounts and how much their post earn which makes them frustrated by bigger accounts who upvote themselves for many $
• Bigger accounts think more variable in how much they earn in relation to their own SP and 10 daily upvotes.

When thinking in probabilities and return on investment, smaller accounts tend to earn a lot more actually. The more SP you have the more difficult it is to get back your own 10 full upvotes. This is why bigger accounts upvote eachother or why many of the whales turned into upvote bots or sell their votes. (why do any effort if you can earn way more without any effort at all especially because curation is broken)

Upvoting yourself 10 times each day is socially not accepted while running an upvote bidbot, selling upvotes or giving upvotes for upvotes is.

If everyone would use part of their SP and upvoting power to give something back to the community without asking anything in return, Steemit would be a much better place allready and give much more back over time. Bigger accounts to me have a bigger responsability in this regard.

Solutions:

• Start with yourself and see how you can contribute to the community.
• Increase curation rewards and also give SBD. Curation simply is not rewarding enough compared to self-upvoting posts tor comments.
• It would be nice if there was some kind of AI sofrware that maps double accounts and reports abuse.
• Maybe give curation rewards to people who flag, right now flagging is like throwing money away, it's hard to win against the abusers.

No matter what happens it's always going to be a very grey area and hard to stop real abuse as people have a very short term mindset. It sure is an interesting topic to think about.