@thecryptofiend Only temporarily, like austerity measures, or quantitative easing, its short term cheap money which comes at a long term cost. It's in my opinion not worth the long term cost.

For example, that precdent of having a $500 cap, could become a $50 cap when there is 700,000 people instead of 70,000 people, and could become a $5 cap at 7 million people, and do you now see the problem?

It will become impossible to earn Steem Power at a reasonable rate because there are too many caps on success. I know, a lot of people are into socialist ideas, but we also have to be honest that these ideas are not fun, particularly when you consider Steem could end up having competitors who don't decide to cap, and where do you think the top bloggers will go?

I don't support the cap because long term it's a bad idea. Short term it might allow me to get more Steem Dollars but less Steem Power? But what is the point if I don't know how to measure my own success? If the highest I can get is $500 then I would not have anything higher to strive for and would get bored.

And in terms of Steem Power, if I feel I can't ever become a whale or work my way up, even though I'm an early adopter? I would also get bored. The point is yes you can make a game easier, but you don't make it more fun by making the game boring for the people who are winning without breaking the rules.

You want to keep the current winners happy while expanding the ways to play and win the game. We can't all be skilled bloggers. Why not open new opportunities for people who want to earn Steem Dollars and let bloggers focus on being good bloggers?

And I know people say it's 'just a trial' but so was a lot of changes in governments or in other blockchains, where they make some controversial change just to try it out but then it gets harder and harder to remove the change as more people join. Something like this is easy to implement and remove at 70,000 people, but at 200,000+ people it's a different story. And let's not forget, there is the 24 hour curation cap, a post frequency limit, a 30 day limit, I mean there is only so much you can do to help people earn Steem Dollars from blogging before you say maybe it's time to let people earn Steem Dollars or and Steem Power doing something else.

Because @ned supports this idea I now expect them to try it out. I think it's a terrible idea but I now at least have notice that it's going to be a trial. If they try it they should at least collect and share statistics, because during this trial Steem Power flow is gong to change dramatically.