i think this message is valuable. pirsig wrote about this in "zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance", a wonderful book if you havent yet read it, when he spoke of quality over quantity; ethics as the base of actions.

i also spoke of this quandary over values to my therapist, and i do believe that there is a small but strong group of steemians who do believe in not selling out. whether that is as a rebellious act to counter the mainstream or as a purposeful decision matters not. eventually the one becomes the other if the value holds.