Pozdrav! I will be joining slavchat. And yes, that and selfupvoting 100$ memes are the main issues of Steemit right now. It's simply unavoidable. But it is a mirror from our real life experience. People tend to get attached to wealthy people in an effort to gain more influence and wealth of their own. Nothing new. And writing on this topic won't get you any points in the eyes of the community. Theres a saying:
Whales gonna whale.
I'm more concerned with saying the truth, than stick up so someone with a large amount of SP. I'm not here to be the whales' clown.
It is unfair. But eventually more and more people will become whales. Steemit is a reflexion of modern society agenda.
To become officially a whale one needs about 300 000 SP. So becoming a whale from blogging is kind of unrealistic. Most of us can become dolphins, really fat ones.
#MinnowsAccountsMatter , lol. I'm still unsure of the calculations on the "whales" et cetera because, if you had 500.000sp a month ago, you had 1 million USD, now you have half of it, and less. If it drops to 0.10$, are they still whales? In Steemit sense - yes, but in the crypto, no. Btw, you could become a whale from blogging. Get a nice team of whales upvoting your posts for 365 days. 365 posts with 500 sp / day. :) There are some people who get near that amount daily here. Will it continue, I hope so. But the gap between the whales and large earners and the dolphins is growing more and more each day, and it's a turn off for many new people. Hope Steemit gets a refresh.
It's not how much money they have, it's how much vest they have. So price is relative.
Well, if you had 500k SP. Would you speak against the whales system, sincerely?
I'm not talking against whales, maybe it sounds like that. I'm stating that they vote randomly, and it's useless to try to impress them.
I've been on the platform long enough. I've seen whales speaking against the whales system. There was a flagging experiment not long ago. So if I had 500k SP many people will not like what I have to say.