Anything you power up will spread that influence to those you choose rather than where it would have went otherwise, so you would win in that less is available to be had.
At some point that influence spreads enough that the crowd will have the power rather than the few.
I don't math enough to know when that might be, but I do know that every little bit they don't get is a bit of power they can't have.

Your case looks to be random, it had nothing to do with you, I'd ignore it and move on.