Hey @kevinwong, I have read many of your posts highlighting the flaws in the Steem Economic system. I think you are pretty close to spot on. I think the solutions you and @trafalgar have proposed will improve the current system. I have done my own analysis and arrived at similair conclusions. However, I am less confident in the changes proposed regarding the rewards curve. Downvote pool and increased curation rewards will improve things. The curation rewards should at least be 50% possibly higher. Changing behaviour needs a bigger kick than maintaining it.
I don't agree with what you and @trafalgar have been doing with your alt accounts but I can understand why you are doing it. I sell votes through SmartMarket once my Voting Power reaches 90%. I try to make myself feel better by including a nice long black list of accounts I do not sell votes too. I would love to dedicate more SP to curating but it feels like I am working so others who do nothing get a bigger share of the pie.