Actually, I'd forgotten that rewards are only 75% of the inflation, 15% is paid out as interest on holding Steem Power, and 10% goes to the Witnesses running nodes and producing blocks to keep the chain running. This system was very different from the original economics of Steem and was adopted in an earlier hardfork. Here's a link to the notes on that fork from last December. [Link](https://steemit.com/steem/@steemitblog/final-review-of-steem-economic-changes)

Today's fork should not have fundamentally changed these amounts. What it did was change how influence was calculated. In the past, the power of your vote was equivalent to your Steem Power squared. So if you had 1 SP and someone else had 1,000, their vote would not be 1,000 times more powerful, it would be 1,000,000 times more powerful! This is what had the early miners and adopters (whales) wielding a very outsize effect on the platform. Now influence is calculated linearly. Think of it as 1 SP = 1 vote. So having 1,000x more SP means 1,000 times more voting power, not 1 million!
Everyone but whales is seeing their voting influence increased because the whales voting influence is decreasing by a corresponding amount. Thus the nickname "Equality" for this hardfork.