Good luck with 50k, that's an impressive goal (though a brief, impolite glance tells me it sounds achievable :D).
I don't think it's right to penalize people for powering down. It's not your money, and most of the time, people seem to PD when they really need it in real life. I get growing the ecosystem, and I'm doing my bit as and where I can, but at the same time, we can't forget it's that desire for a little something extra to fall back on in hard times that brought many of us here in the first place. I think it'd be crazy to now say "no, you can't take it out, otherwise you're betraying everyone".
The point to me is financial freedom, both in the obvious sense and in the, you do what you want with your money and I'll do the same sense.
Ha, it's not impolite. There's a LOT of wallet gazing going on at the moment.
I am in agreeance with you on penalizing people. It does worry me. I have seen posts from people I like here talk about rewarding people MORE for staying powered up which seems elitist to me.
But at the same time, if you can afford to, it's worth thinking hard what a power down might do to the system and whether it's really, really worth it or whether by holding on, we can maintain what we have here. I would miss it if it was gone.
Sounds like it would create a bubble (even more than we already have): only the users who aren't broke or in some way depend on their HIVE can afford to commit to that, rewarding them more makes them richer, while keeping the poor ones poor. How does that help anyone?
That's what's got me confused. I thought most people on here who could afford it and who had been around long enough to care about the ecosystem were doing it already.