I've been thinking something very similar, which is why I made a post about it as well;
https://steemit.com/steemit/@luminousvisions/the-steemit-battle-between-the-whales-and-minnows
and @stellabelle upvoted it
and I feel really strong about, so I made a post trying to come up with a solution as well;
https://steemit.com/steemit/@luminousvisions/stop-telling-people-that-they-can-make-money-from-steemit
and @ned voted for it
but ... although they should maybe consider doing something like you and me are suggesting, by simply giving a lot of people some extra steem power, a short, 1 time action, just to speed up the process
but at the same time ... it's happening, never fast enough to any of our liking's, but it's happening ... we just need to give it some time, in another 3 to 6 months a lot will have happened already
I think a few days of whale vote fasting might lift all the 10c post on the network and build everyone's Steem equally. What we really need is whale fasting not whale voting.
https://steemit.com/steemit/@dennygalindo/a-day-of-fasting-on-votes-for-the-whales-9-9-16