This is well put together. I hope price is low enough to encourage the developers to stop powering down. There is also a difference between powering down and selling steem as powering down does not add selling pressure to the market.

You are spot on about flashy $ that so few people get. One of my first posts made $1650 so I was hooked. Most people aren't that lucky. Now my average post makes $0.10 or $0.15. it would be better for 1000 users to make $2 a post than 1 user make $2000 a post. A social network needs people spending time, so the masses need to have enough $ to feel good about their post but not so much they make money the focus.