I appreciate very much you not blocking me LOL. The shout out is icing on the cake of your character. I see why I follow you, because character is generally why I follow anyone.

I will but briefly point out that civilization is the result of capital gains; of building enterprises into greater and more rewarding enterprises. While investors in the underlying investment vehicles of such enterprises do gain capital thereby (to wit, capital gains) society in general also benefits.

However there is a different way to profit, that comes from extracting the resources such an enterprise needs to conduct it's business, and some companies buy a controlling interest in a business, sell it's plants and equipment, fire all the employees, and sell the stock for whatever they can get, making a quick buck by destroying the business. As you might guess, such a business plan does not benefit society generally, and even the minority investors are often reduced to legal action due to losses they suffer as a result of such profiteering.

The value of Steem is it's social media. The extant extraction of rewards using stake weighting is comparable to selling the forges and presses of a manufacturer by profiteers. The content created by users on Steem turns up on the chans, on Twatter, on Fakebook, and Goolag's Youtube. That's where I found out about Steem. That is the marketing department of Steem: user's posts and content. That's probably how we all got here.

Profiteering is not the equivalent of investing for capital gains.

Thanks!