people come in and play this place like Donkey Kong so as to get the value to buy back into the status quo at a higher level, rather than build it into a new game that has yet to be seen
When are you going to power down and turn it back into money?
Lol. How about never. When I need stuff, I'll buy it with upvotes.
There are going to be a growing number of ways to use Steem/etc to purchase with and at some point, the fiats will break and there will be an explosion of options.