But what would the alternatives be to reward pools that worked that way?
Please see my reply to @amirl.
Maybe Steem should have started with everybody at zero money in it when Steem started.
The solution I have in mind doesn’t require that tokens be uniformly distributed. Fungible resources will always be power-law distributed in nature.
One alternative to a rewards pool would be to have no collective pool and just let people Bit Torrent wire money or cryptocurrencies to people we want to upvote on Steemit.
Change Tip Must Die explains why tipping doesn’t work.
So I’ve told you what doesn’t work, but I haven’t yet told you what I think will work.
RE: “Consortium blockchains” (e.g. DPoS & Tendermint) can’t Internet scale