Not sure how I missed this post, but it looks like we are thinking along similar lines.

https://steemit.com/steem/@jrcornel/steem-what-if-we-turned-off-the-inflation

I think this is a really good idea and where we need to go if we want to make steem sustainable. It claims it wants to be a social media base layer where everything else is built upon it, well it's time to actually make it one then.

This idea would have my support and a lot of the people I talk to as well.

If we could get that inflation number to 1%, even better. ;)