I think that this is a wise and helpful proposal Hive account@aggroed. That passive Steem inflation is great and all, but it does need to be allocated more efficiently. I would like if all the major investors think of it as follows: Wouldn't you like it if each one of your Steem tokens gained through passive inflation turned into 2, 3, 4 or more Steem without diluting the number of total outstanding Steem tokens? If you do, then you should be embracing the idea of a community created Steem pool of funds that goes towards paying for community selected and successfully completed worker proposals. The key aspect of this proposal is who will be selecting the proposals that will get funding, and what will the allocation of funds look like.

An added feature that can help with this is a field in the profile settings that lets the user allocate a percentage from the annual percentage to a specific worker proposal fund of their choosing.

A similar additional feature that is already being developed is for the user to be able to set a beneficiary account of a percentage of their voting rewards or even curation rewards.

I think that these 2 new features would help investors choose what project teams they would like to passively contribute to.

These contribution/beneficiary features would of course be completely voluntary, but some kind of recognition (aka benefactor badge, etc.) could be visible on the profile page of the accounts that contribute a percentage of their rewards to a worker proposal pool or project team. Just an opinion.

And of course, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays Steemians! Blessings to all!