A very entertaining implication of this is that if people do buy into the system, it could easily be more profitable to put the 1000 SP in your own account and frontrun its votes for curation value than it will be to buy in yourself.
Of course there are hundreds of ways to do better with 1000 Steem, but that one's really funny.
People get wet by the idea of passive income streams. The dream of doing less.... Just lay back and have all the money keep rolling in forever... Haha