As steem goes up i feel that I am a bit more influential and I can encourage other people to keep doing a good job when they see the small reward of 0.01 stu (that's my vote).
When the time comes in which a large part of the users could exchange their upvotes for things it would be very innovative and revolutionary but at the same time the community should set certain agreed rules to avoid benefiting spammers or people who do illegal things.