Even more so with the 1 minute window. The switch to 50% will make smaller stakeholders earn more because they can automate, where actually manually curating orcas and whales will be the ones subsidizing the increased curation rewards of early voters. Anyone minnow could easily sacrifice their $0.02 and upvote after 6 seconds in order to maximize their return. Upvote Acid and Bernie as soon as your script allows and you're golden.

By trying to fight "abuse", the behavior of few, each new proposal (and HF) is actually penalizing investors because the focus is constantly on Minimizing abuse. Which, as per white paper, can not be annihilated. The focus should be on actually improving returns also for larger stakeholders. That will increase demand, not a model in which the HODLers subsidize even more.

We know the Austrian model is not what drives Steem anymore. Returns are, not idealism and ideology.