" Stake is valuable and there should be perks for hodling, but it doesn't need to give one more power than another in governance..."
This is a fundamental problem that confounds centralization. Accumulating stake is an effect of parasitization, and that is the source of overlords which derange human society.
For ~250k years, humanity lived in egalitarian tribes that had little ability to project force, because surplus wealth was almost impossible to create. Everyone had to provide their own goods and services by hand because technology was pre-industrial. Upon the advent of agriculture surpluses became possible, and centralization enabled parasitization and overlords, who used surpluses to sustain security specialists, gangs of armed thugs, that preyed on society, and societies.
Today decentralization of means of production is the cutting edge of technological advance across all fields of industry. As individuals and communities avail themselves of suitable means of production, overlords are prevented from parasitizing their production, which inures to the producers themselves. Centralization is being deprecated, and overlords sustaining gangs of armed thugs with it.
Decentralization is the cure, and centralization is shown to be a temporary phase necessary to the advance of technology from the Stone Age to the Space Age.
Government is centralization. When we are able to manufacture our means of personal security we are not required to purchase them from shartmart, where WMDs suitable to eliminate gangs of armed thugs on which overlords depend are not sold.
Hive was capable of being decentralized, and marketed as such, but instead HP is centralized, which centralizes political power. While this fraud lasts it enables oligarchs to sell free speech produced by content creators for tokens through the mechanism of curation rewards. Using flags, oligarchs are able to prevent upstarts from joining their ranks, and return HP to the pool, where they are able to extract the vast majority of it into their wallets.
Free speech has been marked for destruction, and CBDCs are being introduced presently. The UN has begun taking sites off the web by preventing DNS resolution, and CBDCs are only able to be forced on people bereft of other forms of money. It is obvious that Hive and cryptocurrency exchanges will be eliminated shortly so that they will not be used to prevent enslavement to CBDCs, social credit algorithms, and the vaxpass.
The global monetary system is beginning it's final collapse, as Evergrande defaulted, again, which is causing the ~$60T Chinese property market to collapse and the effects to spread throughout the global monetary system. Neither fiat, shiny rocks, nor cryptocurrency will be available to people shortly.
People that have exchanged their financial resources for nominal means of decentralized production will be able to provide their necessary goods and services without being dependent on CBDCs. I am unaware of another way people can remain free of subjugation to overlords who completely control extant centralized production of essential goods and services.
As the ongoing genocide of humanity continues, it becomes increasingly impossible to conceal, and despite the fact that people desperately try to maintain their illusion that they have not been fooled, the survivors will increasingly become aware of reality, and the fools will continue to die.
Eventually this will become a hot war, and the troops necessary to overlords to project force will themselves grasp that they are being chemically castrated, injected with experimental genetic therapy, and are not overlords that will become owners of everything, but instead property of the very overlords they serve. Many have been purged already who have refused to become GMOs, but even those left will die or grasp they have been fooled, and overlords will become unable to project force.
I do not expect Bill Gates and Klaus Schwab are going to become Rambos, dual wielding assault weapons and defeating massive mobs of protestors armed with sticks and rocks by force of arms. I think they have DUMBs to retreat to for that reason, and have undertaken to create GMOs to replace reason with obedience and preserve their ability to project force.
However, individuals able to manufacture their own means of security from hordes of weaponized GMOs and swarms of drones will not be limited to 1000 year old firearms technology, and the ability of individuals and communities to manufacture WMDs will render armed gangs of thugs and swarms of drones obsolete.
Not without horrific cost, sadly.
That is when decentralization will restore human society to it's original egalitarian state, in and for which it evolved. Oligarchs will no longer be able to project force, eventually the DUMBs will be occupied by corpses, and people will take to the stars, as is our destiny foretold by the prophets of ages past.
Hive is metaphorically an organoid of society, and is one of the last vectors of free speech because of it's peculiarities of governance. Use it to study centralization and communicate forthrightly while it remains.
It isn't more.
RE: After dedicating 5.5 years to Hive/Steem, I've been informed by KING ACIDYO that I added no value