hey @valued-customer, wanted to thank you for this writeup, it helped me tremendously in grasping the issues at hand, still far away from a full understanding though.

Rushing this bill is the last thing we want to do as I see much confusion and little understanding right now in posts and comments (feeling similar myself) - yet some people (with vested interests) seem somehow keen to get this bill finalized as quickly as possible before it has even been discussed. Called it bill for a reason. After years of communication drought, an era of indecision and no apparent steemit movement forward besides some empty promises we suddenly have to sign something the majority of steem users do not even understand?

I'd rather read up on your and others' comments and find a concensus of the best ideas before we start building that system to basically allow for finding concensus in the future.

Dictating the start of this proposal system from the top down seems entirely dissonant to the spirit of a proposal system itself. Especially since there are already alternative systems that have been creative at finding other ways to fund development (as you also mentioned).

I hate to be so blunt but is this a community of people with a shared interest and passion for where we are going, able to communicate and find concensus NOW (based on the best pros and cons and an objective preemptive discussion) or is this a monarchy where the little people have to simply accept any and all decisions by the king and his staff of advisors which will then be used as consent for more centralized decision making of seemingly large ramifications...