There is a value in being read, beyond the monetary.
The exchange of consciousness - the exchange of time. You may optimize your time, manage it efficiently but there is nothing you can do in this life to substantially increase it.
You may stake some value in your health - and expand its duration by perhaps 10%, but nothing you or I will do will substantially increase it. When you read and comment you're giving essentially your most valuable token.
I've always said that if HIVE goes to zero I would probably be sad, but not because of the potential money I have lost on the platform, but the time I would have lost.
100% one of the many reasons I want HIVE to persist.
It'll never go to zero really, think about all the people that are here and hold other coins/fiat that may overshadow their hive holdings, sure it would potentially get more centralized that way but I'm sure many would buy it for cents just for fun.