The 1% becoming 55% refers to mining pool hash rate distribution, not individual node rewards. Running a node helps validate transactions, but it doesn't directly earn block subsidies.

The game theory buddy. Bitcoin nodes / Bitcoin node runners define what Bitcoin is. We do it, the Bitcoin node runners. Miners must create Bitcoin compliant blocks but its the Bitcoin nodes that enforce the Bitcoin rules. If Bitcoiners want Bitcoin to become shitcoin full of spam and centralized j...