Actually I want to clarify something about curation guilds. Curation guilds would be able to solve the influence issue in that 1% owns the large majority of the power BUT it won't create incentives for people to buy steem power to gain influence, actually it would achieve the opposite because if someone with little power can enter a guild with lots of power, then that person will be able to be influent in the sytem without needing to buy more steem power.