If what BlockTrades and you say are correct that stake can be stripped at any time by a fork, that would make any investment into this foolish.

Whose value was stripped? Everyone like me that hunkered down and defended the network got paid out FAT. I bought so much Steem at 20 cents and below, and then all that value got copied to Hive. This was like the best thing to happen EVER EVER EVER. We've been in the news for months and we set precedence that DPOS is resistant to money attack, even when 70 MILLION coins were bought at a discount under the table.

Money can't be stolen from you, because the overwhelming consensus of the network is that would be fucked up and another fork would happen and we'd all make a shit load of money all over again while the attackers would get burned. Attacking this community didn't drain value, it created it. That should be incredible to everyone... it certainly is to me.