"Pockets" (our Steemit Wallet) and the amount shown in them is far different from our literal pockets and is subject to dramatic change prior to those funds appearing in our literal pockets. As one of my non-crypto friends said when he saw my Wallet page, "nice statistics".
It's not "real money" yet in a sense for many people. How many hundreds of thousands of "statistics" have of some of us lost in the past month? ;)
Personally I would prefer not to have balances displayed. But someone who wanted to know could always view balances on the blockchain and that's only a bookmark away at steemd.com; unless you know something I don't know, which is likely considering I don't know a lot.