Everyone sharing real intellectual property here is bringing in value. Not everyone can invest a lot of money like the whales did and most of the whales can't share the sort of intellectual property like most of us are doing here.

So in the steemit ecosystem, everyone is important. Steemit can be likened to a business man looking for creative ideas to invest in. Some people have the money, and some have the ideas and some will be the employees bringing such ideas to life.
I hope you can see the cycle. Everyone brings in something and everyone benefits from whatever comes in; but in different proportion. This is just how steemit is. You guys at the top should stop looking down at those at the bottom. We all are contributing here.

Everyone can't be a whale or a dolphin. In life there's always room for growth. If someone thinks a steemian's post deserves an upvote and he/she fails to do it, he/she is not helping the system. Those that have invested huge money here have more to lose should the system crash, so everyone needs to play his/her part to keep the system running. Just saying!