I'm sorry if you are bitter for some reason that I don't understand. I don't consider it pandering to point out to people how they can earn more and create a more solid long term foundation through power ups, and since I posted that I have heard from a number of users who truly did not understand that as well before, so I think my explanation is serving some purpose. It's unfortunate that people don't upvote more of the fresh content like dam goats and steemed fish jumping into grizzly bears' mouths. Someday, they will. Until then, if I can serve a purpose here by helping explain some of the things that not everyone gets (because they don't read whitepapers or cannot understand them), I will do so. I am not that smart about either technology or economics and my first reaction to Steemit was being upset that BitShares was being left out to dry by this development team, hence my initial opposition towards it. It took me a couple of weeks to really understand how the currencies work on here, but I cannot imagine a better built concept. I posted an explanation of my evolving view on the slack channel some time back.
Any steem dollars I have left after spending on blog advertising will go 100% into Power Ups, no cash outs. To cash out, you would either have to be an idiot or someone who needs money badly.