Under the new system, I can't offer proportionate value. I like the content of small communities, niche interests, and people who have interesting conversations via comments.

If these things are really what drive value to Steem (not saying they are not) then stakeholders are going to need to put their money where there mouth is and support it.

If the "large" stakeholders (the people with hundreds of thousands of dollars invested in the platform) are not doing the "right" thing (whatever is needed to make Steem succeed) - then unfortunately we are pretty much fucked no matter what code changes we do or don't make. This is a stake based system, and we need the large stakeholders acting in the best interest of the platform.

If the existing large stakeholders are not going to step up and do it, then we need other people to come along and invest (literally) millions of dollars to buy up the stake and take over.

Two of the main objectives of this hardfork are:

• Create better incentives for the existing large stakeholders to act in the best interests of the platform
• Make it more appealing for new large stakeholders to come along and buy STEEM to participate in the economy in a way that adds value (curating)