Yeah, I found the Dfinity equivalent
You can see the pattern replicated. 50,000+ people owned 0.8% less than 1000 people owned 75% of the value, the remaining 24% in Dfinity’s hands. ))Dfinity is of course not for profit, but Dfinity team members have an 18% share, so ultimately do receive dividends of a sort.
Now, that was at Genesis. If I am wrong about replicated patterns, which I dearly wish to be, the data now should have improved the distribution since Genesis. However, if I was a betting man, I would bet that the distribution has likely seen even greater concentration.
I emphasise that none of this is to cuestion the motives of Dfinity or the sincerity behind the ICP vision. And VCs are pretty explicit about their profit motive, so no deception there either.
Rather I am calling attention to a set of design antipatterns that foretell a worrying conclusion.