It's too late to do anything about it for Bitcoin - we've gotta live with the distribution we got. And maybe it won't be a problem. But for future cryptocurrencies, it's something we need to consider. And we need to watch out and be ready to refine the idea if it looks like the new boss is going to be the same as the old boss.
Memcoin in specific proposed something like adding democratic processes into the coin itself.
Nothing needs to be added to the protocol for this.
Coming soon...