"How is that a utility?"

If you don't like it, fork it out of the code. Make it so that all votes are equal regardless of your investment.

"And how is that something sustainable that people would want to invest in?"

I'm not saying it is sustainable, but this is what Steem is, it's how they coded it. In order to give their token a market value, they had to give it a utility and that utility was you can draw more rewards if you own more Steem.

"The rest of your comment is just a bit over the top and therefore I’m not really sure how to respond."

Well you used the tag "showmewhereithurtyou", it's not just a meme it has a meaning and it stems from how child psychiatrists talk to children who have been molested. Maybe you didn't know what it meant, maybe I jumped the gun assuming that you did. I think the parallel is quite disgusting too, which is why I pointed it out. Did you not know what that combination of words meant?