>Well, you don't need to have it. Let me explain:

I would also need some level of support from folks whose hive roi income I would like to see go down.
They would be voting to stop their own gravy train.
I don't believe there are enough outsiders to elect a witness that doesn't enjoy the support of the largest accounts.
More popular people are not succeeding at that now.
Further, I don't have the stability at the moment to get a server and run it.
At some point, I may do that, but I wouldn't expect to make it even to the top 50, let alone the top 20.

>>We are better served by folks that stand on their own, iyam.

>What do you mean by that?

People that follow others don't make good leaders, imo.
If you are not prepared to stand on your own ideas then you may fall for any manipulations by the people who's ideas you do follow.

We need people that are not afraid to speak their truth to power.

The way I see it, until major code revisions are less often needed the top 20 witnesses are doing just fine.
It will likely be another 5 years before we don't need expert coders in those positions.
As it is, the coders working on the code don't get paid anywhere near what they could get working on centralized projects.
They only get what we give them through witness rewards, dao payouts on proposals, and overvalued posts.
I don't begrudge them anything that doesn't come from the rewards pool.
Imo, they should be doing things that increase the value of hive rather than sucking up our newb attraction pool through their popular support, but as long as the code base is still being expanded, let them have it.
Hive isn't going anywhere.
5 more years and it will look much better than it does now, even on this front.

Stinc held us up with a two year walkabout.
Zero development for those two years crippled us in the market.
They reaped the pool with their bid bots and linear rewards.
That won't be happening in the next 5 years, so we should enjoy steady growth from here.