The balance of power on Steemit is slowly shifting, but a whale with 100k SP can do more than 1000 minnows with 15.
Humans consider themselves all powerful, but we still struggle to deal with what nature can throw at us and we're our own worst enemy.
But the Tokens are not real power. It's that it's being used to stream value in the network. That will say 1 transaction it doesn't matter if it's 0.01 or 50. 1000 minnows have the power to stream more value by doing more transactions which actually is generating more value than 1 whale can ever do.