Good research @holoz0r, thanks for the leg work and report.

I'm new on Steemit and was attracted to investigate because of the idea of working with something that is similar to a gifted currency. I find the emphasis of money equals influence to be something of a problem that creates a situation like we find with Rando-whale which is/was the same person as B-Sanders. On one side it looks like Rando is doing a favor for a group of people to be able to upvote someone but I see another side that Rando is taking advantage of a "rentier" strategy, that is making a profit from simply holding a moneyed position without any real production.

IMO creating an environment where this happens is counterproductive to creating an egalitarian economy. It is simply reproducing inequalities that we have in our present and to a large extent in our historical societies. I believe that we can do better than that.