the slope of the mean steempower could rise if members can dedicate 50% of their earnings on stem posts and power up,and follow the curation trail. This would be able to give a reasonable upvote worth even if curie doesn't give an upvote. This is some pretty good analysis
That would definitely do a lot for the community, I mean right now if we were to double the number of daily voted posts then we would basically have to half all of our votes and in order to provide the same rewards to users we would need the trail to double in power. I don't know the exact rate at which the trail increases in power but I do know its not greater than the growth rate of the community.
It's quite disheartening that majority only come for reward and not for the community growth.I believe that if we all join hands together, the community will become enviable on the steem block chain.