Interesting viewpoint. This can help mitigate the need to value the natural result of trickle-down economics within Steemit. I never really put into mind that there could be a middle class. If you think about economic solutions that actually worked in real life, the middle class does a powerful job stimulating the economy with their liquid buying power after WWII. How would the turn out be if this was utilized in Steemit? It might be an idea now, but could end up be a revolutionary solution sometime soon. I hope @dan and @ned have a chance to check this out for a new experiment.