I know that I spend at least 50% of my voting power on new people who make less than $5 a post, but there are 100s more I can't help.

Its a valid point. I think Steemit Inc and the whales could do what @fulltimegeek had done with the Stewards of Gondor. He delegated 5000 SP each to maybe 50 accounts that he felt did a good job manually curating. Something has to be done, so thank you for working your plan.