"The bad part of powering up HIVE is it gives you power over the network."

This has been a weakness for the platform since it's inception. It is what caused Hive to exist, because Sun Yuchen just bought enough stake to govern the platform at will. It isn't just you that suffers from the power of stake to govern, but the platform itself.

I hope I can relieve some of your concern regarding the following:

"Money is the root of all evil..."

This is a common misquote. The actual quote is 'The love of money is the root of all evil.' I hope the difference relieves your concern that you cannot have stake and be good, because the difference between having money and loving money is far more than merely pedantry. People that love money generally sublimate more appropriate targets for their affection, which are primarily other people. Jesus was saying that causes them to do bad things to people in order to gain more money, because they do not love people enough to be good to them and instead harm them to get that paper. Robbery, fraud, and all sorts of crimes are committed directly to gain money, and many, many other indirect ways to gain money through doing people wrong also bedevil us.

Simply having money isn't evil. You can have immense fortune and live in love with good people and purpose to do them good. Often this costs money, and this can result in fiscal imprudence. If financial prudence is more important than social prudence (i.e. being good to good people) then people that love money more than people will neglect to do good for people, and this seems to me to be the reason the love of money is the root of evil. Having money isn't evil as long as doing good to good people is more important to you.

As to being othered because you have money, that isn't something I will do. I don't much care about money, but I do care about people, and I hope that principle will always guide how I treat you, as I hope it guides how I treat everyone else, too. Stake attracts the attention of people obsessed with it, and because I am not obsessed with stake I find interacting with people obsessed with it usually disappointing, as the values and principles I and such folks express usually aren't very compatible. You may find that to be true as well, and this will make your enjoyment of Hive (and your stake) dependent on the company you keep here.

Thanks!