So instead a cartel of miners you'll get a cartel of crypto-banks and exchanges with lots of coins in their cold wallets for which they'll additionally earn interest, without having to reinvest in new generation hardware. MtGox would have dominated a PoS-version of Bitcoin quite exclusively back then.
Not that I know of any better solution, concentration of wealth and power seems to be a general problem inherent in capitalism, or possibly even any imaginable form of human society.
Would that mean exchanges would not have to take fees from users then? Enabling fee free trading?