Because they have been asked and it’s clear they are only committing to the 200k STEEM. So, if the Steem worker proposal system is something we see being as beneficial, we, the community, have to find a way to sustainably fund it. The rewards aka “inflation” pool was designed to fund contributions to the platform that add value, it makes sense to allocate some of it to a worker system that essential could add quite a bit of value.

Depending on Steemit Inc. is not an option, so we need another one.