Great vision

I think number 7 needs a little more though though, there is no way every post is going to receive thousands of views unless there are many many many more viewers than creators. But there could be a lot more to keep those with power in check. The first thing would be a focus on anything that fixes the distribution of wealth. Obviously future HFs that focus on this would be nice.. Decentralized unions of minnows who can come together and stand up to whales (we have PAL but it is quite centralized and based on monetary incentive more than common ideas about how the platform should be). Communities will lead to a huge improvement because it will allow us to focus more of our energy on manageable environments that bring together like minded people.

There is one thing that I see as a huge contradiction here at steemit and it's often overlooked and very poorly understood. We have two ideas about what is valuable behavior at steemit and they bring two very different kinds of people to the platform with Very conflicting views about the world and therefore the direction they see steemit going in. I don't think there is no way for them to find harmony but it will require a lot of work and insight to balance out.

First, investing in steemit and activities that raise the price of steem are seen as valuable. On the other hand, a huge focus is put on quality content, we want to believe hat that is what steemit is based on. The reason these two conflict is that money almost always attracts money. Quality content is different....it can, but it doesn't always. Because of hat, those who invest have much more power here. A content creator often has to impress those people in order to achieve even a fraction of that power. So having money is essentially more realibly profitable than creating quality content. That means more and more power will flow to people who already have power. So the how do you fix the distribution of wealth?

I don't think it will be impossible to fix this contradiction but it requires us to recognize the problem and do something about it while there are still plenty of decent people who care as much about the platform as their own personal benefit.

I will write an article on this once I get my ideas organized.