We point to the whales because they have the stake to let steem reward 'good' content as it was designed, but choose not to do so, for whatever myriad reasons.

I'm in favor of the flags because of how they negate abuse.
You do know that the top 10 votes, not voters, votes, takes ~30% of the pool, each and every day?
Very little of the inflation makes it out of the largest hands.
Flags are our defence in the crab bucket of steem.

We can let them sink themselves having 100% of nothing, or we can use our stake to voice our dissent to that plan.

Sad that you would join with the malignant actors, but you gotta do what you do.