There are a handful of witnesses here (myself included) that want to hand more power to the content creators. One way I've suggested multiple times is restructuring the governance which is why I decided to transfer over and become a Hive witness. To support the people. I wasn't going to, until I saw a few shady moves already made. The community. I'm a social witness😜but moreover, I see a huge grab and gap in the power of the current consensus and am really worried some of that may have gone to their heads. People do have the power here. Regardless how many private investors have secret meetings with just a few 'top witnesses'. I'll be putting forth multiple proposals in hopes we can get a grip and come together as a 'society' to make this place more positive, more democratic and much more appealing to investors.
Great reading this, thank you @snook.
We should have more than a handful. And I think there is.
About power. It'll always go to the head. It's what you do with it once it gets there that matters. You can see on Steem right now a fine example of a power trip running wild. They're putting their self interests before everyone and every thing else.
People just need to know the community in most cases should come first, if they're making decisions that affect the entire community.