lol, that's actually a really good solution. I suppose the protection against this is that it would be a huge waste of money since the price would undoubtedly drop dramatically.

buuuuuuuut...

The other part of this doomsday scenario that I mentioned in my comment, but not in this post is if it was corporate sabotage. I know this is getting into some far fetched conspiracy stuff, but if Steem started to eat a chunk of Facebooks profit, Zuck could potentially power up a ton of Steem, flood trending with a million flavors of disgusting content, and cut his losses, because in the end it would be cheaper than losing all those users.