STEEMIT RED FLAG: A growing wealth inequality looming?

Is it really true that 107 votes gives this channel only 10 dollars? If so then we may have a major problem.

And this is for a creator whose target audience is very old compared to the DTube site -- among the first large ones. Here is a creator who's been posting vlogs everyday for a month, making a little over a dollar for the same amount of likes:

A lot of the normal Steemians here that aren't doing this full time aren't gathering the wealth enough to distribute enough to each other to stay afloat. A large amount of the voting power is concentrated with those in the top 1% of Steemit, a group of people dubbed "the whales".

The rest of us get cents and receive cents unless we work up a HUGE amount of time until we get a living wage from the site, or until whale accounts spread percentages of their voting power down to the smaller posts, which may barely ever be seen.

All of this is while the STEEM coin has lost over 80% of its value since the beginning of 2018, taking the purchasing power from the entire community with it:

And the market cycles for this coin are estimated to be around a half-year long, so we may not see another price boost until June. This sounds like a recipe for total disaster years down the line. Imagine if you relied on Steemit as your source of income because you couldn't find any other job?

Imagine if you were making mere pennies a day while rent and food cost hundreds or even thousands per month in families.

Imagine a massive, systematic-level growing wealth inequality: The very top being shown and making a living wage reproducing whatever the future algorithms say attracts the most attention (look at how YouTube turned out), and the bottom, hardly able to find good content and relying on a sea of robots to vote on, comment on, and spread their posts.

Imagine it, because I see this happening. Even popular bots like @resteembot have programmers behind them that sometimes can't make a living wage. What happens if this platform isn't under our control, but is trying to control us?

An urgent message, I think it needs an urgent discussion.