I guess it is class society if you view it from the point of influence to rewards distribution. That’s where it ends though.

Nobody can control the actions of my account, and my wallet. Dpos makes sure my assets are only accessible by me alone and my content can only be posted and edited by me. This applies to any user.

You have a great example of how new wealthy stakeholders could attack the network that may not be in the benefit of the community.

I doubt it is possible. The way stakes are currently distributed no one person or small group of people can take over the network to benefit themselves at the cost of others.

If some rich person or people decided to buy up a lot of hive to have any significant influence, the price of hive would jump up so high it would be to costly for them. Now since it costs them a lot, they would have to act in a way to benefit the platform and all participants so that they don’t lose their investment value.

Lastly, if large amount of people decided this place is hostile to them they can always fork out and start a new chain. The code is open source.

The two reason hostile takeover of justin sun happened on steem because he bought large amounts of steemit stakes over the counter behind the closed door secret deal with Ned. He would never be able to buy such amount on exchanges. This stake wasn’t even suppose to be used for governance due to being ninja-mined. Second reason, large exchanges like binance colluded with justin and used user funds as stakes.

These two things are no longer possible on Hive. Hence, I can’t think of another hostile takeovers and attempts to centralize.