After reading some of the comments in stellabelle's post about the death spiral, the solution to decreasing the Gini coefficient is rather simple.
We need more genuine content. Less content about making money, less meta-posts complaining about certain flaws. Just more people writing about stuff they finding interesting. With more interesting content, that will attract more eyes and those new eyes will vote for what they enjoy.
The only issues from achieving this goal:
- Curation favors those who regularly are highly rewarded. Needs to be fixed.
- Filtering on Steemit sucks (finding what interests you). Communities could help this a lot, but we know very little on exactly how this will be implemented.