Switching to a linear rewards curve meant that every account had the same degree of influence (on a per-Steem-basis) on the rewards pool regardless of the total amount of Steem they had in their accounts.
And this was the key mistake I think. I think yes we had the problem of whales before, and no system is going to be perfectly fair, but now we have a much worse problem of "buy your votes" replacing "earn your votes".
In other words now only the rich can earn at all because you essentially have to buy your votes.
Exactly, a curve makes it impossible and if not extremely hard to correctly divide the proceeds from bidbots since the order the delegations come in plays a large part in the calculation of how many vests/steem.
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