Certainly a well done and well thought out... and very true take on crypto reality.

The very long and impossible to accomplish solution is to stop focusing on cryptos and economics, and try to build change at a psychological, societal level. Instill in people the core value that the pursuit of enough is a preferable ambition to the eternal pursuit of more.

Yeah, I know "good luck with that!" Even in free-market social democracies like Denmark or Norway, the Pareto Principle still holds... the only difference (as compared to the US, for example) is that the gap between the top 20% and the bottom 20% is much narrower.

Perhaps a better and more expedient — albeit far from perfect — solution is to allocate voting influence on a logarithmic scale.

"Yeah, but that takes away the incentive to INVEST!"

This is where I become another "Internet Asshole with an Opinion." I think cryptos (and Steem/Hive) kinda lost track of what "investing" means. And what cryptos even are. Thinking of this industry as some kind of weird "Gateway to a Lambo" due to wild value swings is doing everyone a huge disfavor. Whatever happened to the currency part? Whatever happened to banking the unbanked? Whatever happened to alternative non-banking payment systems?

A logarithmic influence scale shifts the focus of investing to creating value, so your holdings will enjoy long term appreciation, through exercising wise influence on your project. Flattening the influence curve encourages long term thinking, and reduces the incentive of sitting on an exchange, refreshing the screen every 30 seconds. People start investing for a different reason than hoping they have some gimmick that will run up the price of the token by 1000% in three months.

But, as I said, I'm just Another Internet Asshole with an Opinion!