Absolutely. But is there a point past which the uneven spread of wealth that benefits early adopters and or large investors is either morally unjustifiable or just plan bad for the network?

Ah freedom! What kind of freedom though? In one sense, you and I are just as free as @jerrybanfield or @sweetsssj or @dan - which is something I truly appreciate and treasure. But there's a very real sense in which you and I are not; there are lots of actions that they are free to take, that even someone as successful as you does not have access to.

For the record, I'm not against economic inequality in an absolute sense, but I don't give it a free pass. If inequality isn't helping the least fortunate, then it really is just the rich making themselves richer. Will Steem make trickle-down economics work, possibly for the first time in human history? Time will tell.

I don't have an answer to any of these issues (yet). But as someone who is in the business of thinking about questions of ethical value, it's apparent to me that most people are not thinking very clearly about this.