You do not need your ID attached to your wallet. You choose to by signing up through steemit. If you open your account any other way, you can have a anonymous wallet.
The rich will always have influence. That is how a capitolistic society works. Thinking solely along those lines yields no real results for anyone.
What do you suggest be changed on a broad level?
RE: This is why STEEM will be the de facto base currency of the Internet