Reading some of the earlier mailing list posts made by Satoshi back in 2008 and in his discussions with Hal Finney, it seems that his original vision of Bitcoin was quite different compared to the situation today. He did briefly mention ASICs as a possibility by referring to "specialized hardware" as well as the transition towards light wallets like Electrum and Multibit but he mostly referred to miners as being discrete individuals who mined using their personal computers. The only times where he talks about miners cooperating with each other to mine bitcoins is when botnets are discussed. Neither in his mailing list postings nor in his white paper does he ever mention the possibility of mining pools.
Each node's influence on the network is proportional to its CPU power. The only way to show the network how much CPU power you have is to actually use it.
If there's something else each person has a finite amount of that we could count for one-person-one-vote, I can't think of it. IP addresses... much easier to get lots of them than CPUs.
That quote is from a couple of months before he left the forum. Even then, he still held onto the belief that nodes are directly proportional to CPU power. Of course now we know that from the perspective of the network, someone that is mining on a pool is not considered a node and has no influence on the network. Instead, the influence lies in the operator of the mining pool.
Satoshi left this forum in late 2010. By then, the first pool (Slush's Pool) had opened and CPU mining was on it's way out. Perhaps Satoshi saw something that he had not anticipated and realizing what was coming, he panicked and decided to leave.
I often wonder what made him ack his bags and leave Bitcoin. What did he see that maybe we dont see right now. I also wonder why the developers now just sit around concentrating on just the Protocol, why dont they do productive things that will help Bitcoins. I mean when it boils down this is their business, what business do you knwo that has no advertising paid for by the owners, research and development paid for by the owners, I mean they do well with the protocol and doing things to strengthen the bitcoin transactions but they do nothing of real vale for bitcoins. Without a good value they will lose miners, without miners the transactions can not be processed. it is not 2009 when it was easy to mine bitcoins, today it costs a lot more money and computing power to mine them, allowing the price to dive bomb has to throw some kind of red flag for them, they cant be stupid enough to not be able to compare computing power in 2009, the difficulty and the network hashrate to the costs involved and those things today. Where are the developers? why do we never hear form them on here? where is thier input and why are they so willing to let their dream die. Satoshi knew something we did not. What was it?