because those 30 whales take away everybody else's voting power, which is why voting is no fun, as it is pointless, while only posts that get votes from whales will trend and make money ... and that's why steemit is consistently losing users

there are no real investors, because those people, like me, who invest a bit of money to see how it works will soon find out, it basically doesn't work, because those 30 whales consume 90% of the voting power, which is why buying steem power is extremely expensive and thus pointless