The amount that the people at the bottom are getting is basically negligible -- and it wouldn't take much siphoning from the top to dramatically fix that (225 packs to 3 players twice a month = $900; now look at all the prizes for non-gold novice, bronze and silver tournaments during that time-frame). Those are also, obviously, players who walk away with a lot of other tournament money. Heck, I've made 80,000 DEC just Saturday, Sunday and today. I'd gladly give a quarter of that back if everyone else did and we could make the game stronger and more popular (and I'd probably get it back and more in the long run). But, Splinterlands is just mirroring society in that the top 1% vacuum money from the bottom. The only difference is that people can leave Splinterlands.