I'm not jealous, I just wish the payouts would have worked opposite. There was more money in the post that didn't grow community (i.e., interaction between people) and less money in a post that drove more interaction. I think the system should balance in a way that it promotes and/or rewards the number of connections between users that are made.

Obviously there's values in whales having the power they do. Again that's what drives value. A Coca-Cola, for example, would probably love to have the top slot on reddit, but they can't really do that. Here, they could buy enough steem power to make it happen. That's valuable to them, and as a result, it brings value to the dollars we see under our posts. I totally understand the necessity for that, I just wish it also rewarded interactions more.