I'm glad to see you posting on such topic. I wished more top witnesses would. Every idea is much welcomed and even more so from influencial members of the community.

Steem is such a complex system and as with anything complex, it's really difficult to clearly see the bigger pictures of things.

I plan on addressing those subjects in an upcoming post. I will address them from a very different angle and somewhat indirectly.

For the most part, I think these long term interests are already lined up with shorter one but simply need more time to appear as such. Sure there are some people interested in the short term aspect of making money on Steem but in the long run I think Steem incentives are pretty well suited for long term gains too. Hopefully so, cause the success of the platform depends on this and we should always look toward making short term incentives to line up with long term incentives.

And I look forward toward reading more of this idea you just shared.