If there are only 30 "whales" or so. Sure they can upvote themselves and literally make a living from it. But that will suffocate the little guys.. which are just about 99% of us.
Like a king who only feeds himself and allows his people to literally starve to death. This sort of system as it rests, and unchanged.. WILL FAIL.
This is literally what brought on the French Revolution. And those who forget the past, are bound to repeat it!
You must not tolerate this any longer. You the people. They feed off of your content like parasites.. and then they do not even allow you to keep what you have WORKED for.
Are there real instances of stolen content.. YES.
Is every single time someone has their hard earned rewards taken JUSTIFIED? NO!
And this is because in many cases people have their rewards taken due to a personal hatred coming from the person giving the flag out.
High stake does not = being a wise decision maker.
The sad truth is Bernie has too much of the pie. And that makes him king. And he acts with absolute zero regard for anyone other than himself. That is a fact. He brags about it! He encourages you to "buy and self vote".. and then when you do as he is telling you.. you will get the old steemflagrewards downvote, and or blacklist.. and have your rewards taken from you.. so they can be funneled back to him! Then you will need to use bots to gain back rep, or money.. but then you will most likely also be flagged for "bot abuse".. by the people who MAKE THE BOTS, USE THE BOTS, AND ABUSE THEM MORE THAN ALL OF YOU PUT TOGETHER.
Please tell me! Actually NO don't tell me or you will be punished for speaking. But in your heart of hearts.. please.. you MUST see this.. how can I be the only person out of 1 million + accounts who is aware of this!? (I am aware of the many dead fish)..
But you are all in check mate.. you say something you can kiss it goodbye. You say nothing.. and I guess.. well even then you can kiss it goodbye.. because either way Steem is a dead end.. your account either dies by the truth, and dies while you silently do nothing..
I am sorry but you are all no better than slaves.
Those downvotes, and the ability to stop you from gaining the rewards which you have worked so hard to gain, have become the task masters whip.. it is used to keep you in fear.. and to keep you in line.. (so long as your content is not stolen, or illegal).. we all know very well the downvote is used to manipulate, and control people..
..and this is why Steem will fail. In truth it already has failed.. and what Bernie is allowed to do to others is proof of it.