Hi, Jesta, tks for analysis.
we understand that inflation is a way to pay BPs as they have spend their resources like fiat and time, etc for running the network. Their earned EOS will be used. Thus the current situation is not same as your example as Alice earn without doing anything.
EOS can be centralized if you are rich enough to buy a certain amount of EOS or like B1 since EOS is not one vote one person democratic system.
BPs can buy votes either off the line or on the line via many execuses like game rewards. The problem is still here.
A very basic principle that we can understand and should be promoted is that who contribute to the EOS system who will be rewarded by the community. I believe the main problem is that in many cases it is difficult to quantify how much to reward, who decide as we lack an objective measures. Unlike BPs rewards, it is simple and can be well defined. Dapps developers can be rewarded by tokens selling and in future capital market. Voting may not be possible all the time as community members are too busy maybe.
In addition, as one of the community members we are expecting BPs not only just doing a good job in blocks production but also responsible for marketing and promotion of EOS and others functions like operating a company. We will target to vote for an all round BPs.
One point is now we lack voters rewards. Voters stake and spend time for electing suitable BPs. The effort has to been rewarded. This rewarding from system is not difficult to quantity too.
As a conclusion, it is agreed that community members need to understand how inflation model can change the degree of centralization of the system in middle and long term. Rewards via inflation to different contributors parties to the system should be promoted from my point of view. Then the system will be more fair and decentralized further. By the way, we start to vote Greymass for almost 10 months. We hope that you can keep going and raise out the weakness of EOS in order to make EOS stronger.
RE: Inflation, Centralization, and DPoS