In order to increase demand?

How do you teach a kid to be a crapitalust?
You give him some work, pay him, then take him to the comic store.

If not enough people have the coin we will never reach critical mass.
If not enough rewards make it out of the gaping whale maws, there will not be any reason to learn to work.

If satoshi kept all the btc for himself, giving none to others, then nobody would want btc, either.

In fact, if they had our rep do you think number 2 would have eclipsed them by now?

Its my opinion that those with the most to gain from a run up in price should leave the inflation to those creating that demand.
Let the dolphins grow the crowd.
2k+ accounts giving substantial votes draws more interest than 10 votes giving 30% of rewards to ten posts day after mf'n day.

You've got incentive to hold in curation rewards and price rise, if that's not enough to slake an insatiable greed, then start speculating on steem-engine tokens, eh?

Put me down with @ats-david's proposal to lower overall inflation.