RE: Retrospect

I would answer this question with a question.

Will every Bitcoin whale the be same as they are now in 10 years?
There's very little inflation, thus all the whales will be the same, yeah?

Imagine one person held all the Hive tokens (400M)

This one person starts upvoting someone else for 50/50 curation.
After the number of coins doubles (800M), the main holder has 600M and the other guy has 200M. The main stake holder went from 100% stake in the network to 75% stake in the network. See how that works? Our percentage of stake in the network goes down even with 50/50 voting. In fact the 50/50 aspect has proven to help decentralization. We used to do 75/25 and it wasn't as good. People who upvote others like to get a kickback.