I think you're underestimating the power of human greed, but I could be wrong. There are plenty of wealthy people in the world that continue to seek wealth despite being set for life.

That's actually my point... when people have enough Hive resources to post regularly, then they can sell everything they earn from there, converting it to their local currency and buying things in the real world. I think greed from selling off Hive tokens is almost always going to outweigh the greed of accumulating Hive power for votes, etc.

I think this means there will always be significant daily selling pressure of Hive... and I'm not sure if there is ever going to be a reason for buying pressure to outweigh it.