This is exactly how Steem got into this problem in the first place... when Steem only had 1000 people, those people were getting huge amounts of Steem by the way it was distributed, but no one really had any concerns because Steem was only worth about $0.10... now that it's worth more, we're still generating the same amount of Steem per day, but it's distributed amongst many, many more people... but those super early adopters are very much influencing the payouts today.

Ideally the amount of Steem generated each day would increase with the activity (transactions) but because that didn't happen we now have this issue.  Very insightful @uber-dragon!