This is a great post @benjojo. Since i actively started using steemit, which is only barely 2 weeks, even though i have had this account since july 2016 (wish i had caught on then, i'd be in a better place now hehehehe), i have been craving for steem power, as i see it as the means by which i can greatly help improve adoption of steemit by newbies i keep introducing daily to steemit, without proper care and adequate provision of food for minnows, little minnows would just die off as quickly as they were born...
So i conceived the project i could do, which i have seen many others do successfully on steemit, to help minnows (i am one myself).
So coming across your post, has got me really fired up for more steem power, you make it easy for one to understand the inherent value in steem power and why it is needful to accumulate it like Adam Smith's "wealth of nations".
Thank for your insight into this undervalued topic.