Ahhhh, okay.
But are we pushing away people with money? $8 to you might be a lot, but maybe to others who have more money, that's not very much. Maybe to you that feels like "too much", but to him it feels like "too little"? Maybe to somebody with even less than you, your 25 cent self upvotes are MASSIVE abuse, but to you, that's almost nothing and you see no problem with it?
Just saying, perspective.
And we really do appear to be driving away anyone holding/buying STEEM, which is already incredibly hard to do as the price loses 10% every month for 2 years straight. The price will continue to fall as we drive away investors (people with money).