I enjoy drama and internal battles as much as the next person. However, we can fight about making tweaks to the Math on Steem forever and the values of the largest stake holders will show up over and over again. I enjoy Bernie's antics and think he can be funny. It is a bit sad it is the highest valued content on the site according to those who control the stake.
When these are the highest paying posts on the site, it says a lot about the values that fuel the economy.
Change the curation rewards and they will change the bots and their activities to match. Change the timing they will update their bots.
No matter what you change the very limited amount of large users who have the ability to spread the reward pool will still be in the same hands and be controlled by the same values, decisions and activities.
The best thing we can do to fix the economy of Steem is to raise the price so that maybe those who aren't into blogging would sell and thus distribute the Steem. I also think that when EOS has a competing site it will benefit us by providing competition and allowing those who hate SteemIt and Steemit, Inc. a choice and a change to power down and get out, then the distribution will start to correct. Even a huge price crash might help spread the wealth, but I don't think "tinkering" with the economics would help anything.
As a side note, I strongly agree with the suggestion to remove the 30 minute curation reward math.
