The law of the powerful

As always, enlightenment comes to me with great delay. It's me all to the topic of my last post about the flags. I was all wondering and could not understand why whales are so critical of the quality of the content.
And all because that I have one not very useful trait - I think about people better than they really are.
They do not need any quality content! They wanted to spit a damn quality of the texts and everything else, they, like us, came here just for the money. For them, the main thing is to find an excuse to distribute flags generously. If they could not find fault with content and its quality - they would have found another reason.
And do you know why all this is happening and why do they need it?
For a better understanding of how the payments are distributed among users, let's conditionally imagine that for Steemitt during the day, only two users wrote each one post, user1 and user2, and there is a sum of money (a payout pool) that should be divided between these users. Let's imagine that every day in a pool, blockchain accumulate $ 100 and they should be divided into all users who wrote posts on that day. This amount is divided proportionally to the power of upvotes received by users.
Thus, the user1 received (or bought from the bid bots) a upvote of $ 90 and the user2 received (or bought from the bid bots) a upvotes of $ 10. Quite rightly, they should receive such payments after 7 days. But the user1 turned out to be a greedy pig, and decided that $ 90 for his post is not enough, he wants to take himself everything money. And to take it all - you need to downvoted the user2, thereby zeroing his payout, after which the entire pool will get only the user1, that is, after zeroing user2's payments, $ 90 for user1, automatically turn into $ 100.
My scheme is very simplistic, I did not consider the curator payments, did not take into account the fact that on the site posts are written not by two users but thousands.
You ask me - what does it matter if thousands of users on the site? And I'll tell you that there is a group of people in whose hands STEEM POWER is concentrated (and accordingly, the same flags power), about a third of the total power of all users of the site. And this means that having zeroed a posts of users claiming a third of the pool, you can accordingly increase payments for the same amount to yourself and your friends
That's the whole scheme.
Here's how a laconically expressed my follower @kudesnikaltay:
The flag was originally applied by the system's economy as a protective function against abuse. But the economy has invested in the flag a new function, previously not expected. It turns out that you can redistribute the pool, neutralizing the distortions in its distribution, according to the principle "The law of the powerful".