It is a minor hiccup to create several addresses and such, but to someone wishes to invest 1000 Ether or more, I think it is. For a small time investor, it is 0 hiccup though.
How many people invested in the presale? What was the average amount of tokens bought per head?
Sorry, I fail to see how the presale helped equal distribution in any way since 1) smalltimers were excluded 2) there was no maximum.
How did this do anything but help whales get in even earlier and with even more ease?
I don't wish to offend or grind you down in any way. But the logic of the presale beats me entirely.
A few people came in, and only bigtimers - how does this help many people come in, which is what you claim was the purpose...
Not all are born rich so instead of crying for being poor you should try to work hard and start making money from all the opportunities that come across you so in future you don't have to cry anymore for being poor.
Wow... this is hardly about me. I get some tokens, nice, I don't, okay... To me it is about the backbone of cryptocurrency, which needs a certain amount of protection. Indeed I'm not rich, nor do I wish to be... At the moment I think I give away about 40% percent of what I earn to people less prosperous than I am. Because I have enough to get by in relative luxury. I say this to underscore how this is not about 'crying' (very negative post you made there, very LoL... why?) but expressing my wish to keep crypto cleaner than regular currency.
On a side note, hard work has hardly anything to do with wealth. It is mostly chance and circumstance. If you were born into a family carrying stones for a living in some 'backward' country, I bid you good luck regardless of your hard work. Or being born with a low IQ for that matter. Hard work does not in any way equal earnings. Chance and circumstance I tell you. Sure effort is a factor, but a minor part in the grand scheme.