The main focus should be to make the platform seem more lucrative for new users in order to adopt more members. So the focus of the whales should be to increase the wealth distribution down, in order to have higher volume coming in.

This means less paid for votes at the top, but more votes.

The problem would be how to justify this, as this basically would mean whales would have to redistribute a small allocation of their gold mine.  Why would they do that? For the community to grow? Things are sweet as they are. 

But this is needed for the community to grow. Not many people would take the hassle to join on upvote-bot program in order to earn 1 buck per post. Its only computer dudes like you and me, who already joined this betaversion.