Just small thoughts inspired by @dan, here
It is so sad seeing people fight over nothing
At this moment, it actually is something. $100 can feed a family several days or a month depending on where you are. But think bigger. What if Steem has 1 billion monthly active users, which is more than 152,000 times than now and about 53% of Facebook's? Assuming very positively that Steem has the same market cap as facebook, $394 billion. It is 16,800 times greater than current Steem market cap. Then average reward per active user becomes about 1/10 than now.
Whales can be dominant still, but there are many other whales balancing the power. Most of contents will get under $1 or $0.1. Rewards may have less importance. Some users are just enjoying writing and reading, some others maybe enjoying donation or tipping.
But if we have similar proportion bots(I identified at least 500 bots we have now), there will be 70 million bots casting tens of times per day. Some posts would get over 10,000 votes from bots (while getting below dollar reward and hundres of views)
They are just my imagination, but back to the top, I agree with @dan's statement. It seems something to fight over, but will be nothing in the future. Think bigger!
What's your thoughts? Please share your imagination too!