Too bad this post paid out before coming to my attention. This is an interesting read from an economic point of view and considering that you are primarliy an engineer, it makes things even more interesting.
I loved the visual representation of your thoughts. This is quality work!
Same here. I think one of the most-needed changes to the Steemit workings is this "6 day" lifetime of an article. There are articles which are worthless practically minutes after being posted (or even before) such as a lot of "technical analyses" on cryptocurrencies. And articles which are basically timeless - they will still enlighten even 10 years from now. I don't know how that could be captured but having the possibility to "vote for the period during which upvotes on an article count" could be an idea
Dont feel bad... I just finished to write anothe piece about the steem economy:
https://steemit.com/steem/@phgnomo/steemconomy-let-s-talk-about-price-and-value-of-steem-sbd