Okay I read it. I will need to think about it some more to make sure I've completely thought it through. I do have some initial thoughts and I may change.

1st - This is a form of economics I believe attempts to justify certain actions while ignoring actions that lead up to the situation. These actions are important because they do not exist in steemit (currently). So many of the economic conditions that are rife and inequality of wealth are not due to hording they are due to those that horde paying off law makers and changing things so that it becomes easier and easier for them to do so. They also pass wealth redistribution laws with loopholes or where agencies involved in the redistribution are subsidiaries of theirs so they benefit from such actions.

I can see doing things like this if there are problems. On steemit currently there are no such problems other than envy. No one is being starved or hurt by the whales.

I also have an article for you related to yours:
https://mises.org/blog/social-expenditures-us-are-higher-all-other-oecd-countries-except-france

It goes over some of the information on the OECD. I haven't finished reading that one.

As far as inequality. IF I bust my ass and get people to vote for me and I spend hours voting, and I start to get rewarded for my work I certainly am not going to be a happy camper if socialist redistribution crap kicks in and other people are rewarded the same as me without putting forth any effort.

One thing I think kind of sucks, but is NOT hurting anyone is the whales using bots to follow and vote on certain people. That does make the trending page kind of worthless. You are correct at that. I tend to look at new, and recommended more than trending.

AND since this is in beta they could make changes. If you can show me someone being hurt by something then I'd be more inclined to back taking action, but I won't likely be endorsing the OECD route. I don't see most of the countries in the world as doing very well when it comes to economics. They love their fiat currency. I tend to agree with the economists from places like http://www.mises.org more than those that have been in charge and not doing a good job of it.