This is interesting. I read in a different article last week that under consideration in the next hard fork would be the ability for a user to pile on more value on a single vote and as a result vote less. So, the current system gives you 200 votes in five days. But a small minnow could add more value to each vote by only voting 40 times (at 500% once every five days). I think that for something like what you propose to work, we should get the option to (if we want) put all our part of the reward pool into one supervote (that would totally deplete our voting strength until it fully replenished over the following five days. Along with that, we should see more info with our vote than just a slider. For example, we should be able to view exactly how much of the reward pool we have available to bestow through votes, and when we move our slider, it should show a monetary amount which that vote will give along with how much it would deplete our voting power (or share of reward pool). Anyway, all those metrics that you kind of have to dig deep for on sites like steemd.com should become readily available to look at in determining the strength of our vote. I hope I'm making sense. But anyway, even if voting just stays the way it is now, I'd like to have more metrics to look at when I cast my vote. I like the idea of thinking of it as a transaction where I get to transact a certain amount of the resources, and in the case of buying something, I'd then have the option to supplement with actual currency that I hold in my wallet.