There are 7,4B people on this planet, lets create a new steem clone with a total suplly of 7,4B "Steem" and give each person on earth 1 "Steem ", sounds fair! doesn't it?
Well to be fair, the "wealth inequality" of STEEM is pretty damn appalling at this point:
$ MV level accts accts % stake
$0 0 dust 2182 3.15% 0.01%
$4 0.01 newbie 60467 87.17% 0.58%
$40 0.1 user 3620 5.22% 0.56%
$400 1 superuser 2269 3.27% 2.91%
$4,000 10 hero 598 0.86% 8.31%
$40,000 100 superhero 183 0.26% 24.41%
$400,000 1,000 legend 46 0.07% 63.23%
From this, the top 1.19% of accounts (heroes, superheroes, and legends) own 95.95% of the steem power. And I know of at least one whale that's holding 3 of those "legend" accounts, and I'm sure there are others doing the same. It's apparently supposed to be getting better with new authors getting rewards, but for the most part all I've seen is the whales continuing to increase their holdings through compounding SP and by gaming the curation rewards (with bots, kickbacks, etc).
Be fair, EVERYONE is increasing their holdings through compounding SP not only the wales! As for any posible gaming in the curation rewards (I can't prove or disprove this), maybe some whales are misbehaving but wait and see what will happen to the first "steem clones" that will arive with a more "fair" distribution(abuse gaming scaming)!
I guess satoshi in the first months of bitcoin owned much more than any whale owns now in steem , why noone complains about this? Oh, I forgot! bitcoin is the true and only god! everything else is a SCAAAAAM!!!!! and we care to create feelings of "unfairness" only to STEEM distribution, so that our future steem "fair distributed" shitclones will be welcomed with open arms and joy from all!
As I said, lets give every inhabitant on the planet 1 steem each and call this "fair!" , afterwards we can wait for all the work to be done from people "working for free!"
When people talk about "fair distribution" in bitcointalk, the only thing they have in their mind is this ==> more for themselves and less for everyone else! The moment you will see a steem clone ANN in bitcointalk with a more "fair" distribution it will be the moment you will have to run away!
In the end all comes down to this...
I would't say that the problem of steem is unfair,I would rather call it unreasonable .
Let' s take a look at the distribution of steem. As the guy from the above post said, 99% shares are occupied by 1%, and the newly generated shares generally follow the similar rule, which means the taste of that 1% is critical. Unfortunately, BM is always disappoting at this point.
We tend to distribute most of the shares to investors ,who are much more diverse& rational, and then the product will meet the taste of the most people, and make it become more popular.