It’s short term over long term, sustainable thinking... or maybe in other words greed over wisdom. We will keep doing our best to change the culture on Steem. It MUST change. There is no other choice.

Spot on!

IMO, how the long term value of steem can be built and solidified is to find a way to appropriately reward/encourage/retain quality contributors, which will build a more attractive audience for investors. Especially targeted content marketing, which I know is part of what you're doing. It's a no brainer for me that vote buying needs to be squeezed out as it's skewed as a form of economy that takes much more out than it brings in. The only benefit I can see in it is keeping passive investors in steem who may have left without that delegation model.

Anyway, thanks again for your perspective.... I'm off out for a bike ride now to blow of some steam