What both Larry and you both fail to realize is Hive has the most equitable wealth and power distribution of all the other dpos chains combined. Yes there are still some whales, but the power of the "middle class" has long since surpassed their oligopoly. Ot isn't that easy for one whale account to completely drain someone's reputation as it was a year or two ago on Steem.
While such abuse still may occasionally happen, the community votes have a tendency of righting that wrong in not an wholly unreasonable time frame.