I'm afraid I wasn't nearly as generous in my thinking from the get go. Depending on where you live and what you've earned, I suppose, 1,000 STEEM could sound like a lot. I used to think that about $2,000 USD a month, until I was trying to live on it in Southern California. It turned out that it didn't go very far.
But in STEEM's case, 1,000 can equal $1,500 USD like it did recently, or it could equal $3,950 like it does now, or it could be $1 million dollars by simply doing what Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash have done.
So, keeping as much of it as possible in and around the blockchain sounds like a good idea to me. So does setting the all time 24 hour record for number of transactions. :)
You just can't find conversations like this one on the other platforms. Thanks to both of you. I appreciate finding and reading conversations like this one. I am also learning more about Steem.