"STEEM is constantly increasing in supply by 100% per year due to non-SMD incentives. Someone who holds STEEM without converting it to SP is diluted by approximately 0.19%
per day." (Page 8)
"Because Steem wants to encourage long-term growth, it is hardwired to allocate 9 STEEM to Steem Power (SP) stakeholders for every 1 STEEM it creates to fund growth through contribution incentives." (Page 9)
"There are two items a community can offer to attract capital: debt and ownership. Those who buy ownership profit when the community grows but lose if the community shrinks.
Those who buy debt are guaranteed a certain amount of interest but do not get to participate in any profits realized by the growth of the community." (Page 8)
The platform literally doubles the STEEM supply every year out of thin air and which forces people to either dive into SP which is rewarded with STEEM (air) in a 9:1 ratio vs STEEM holders or cash out.
They are basically admitting in the whitepaper that the system is designed to lock people into rampant asset speculation. "community grows" implies a future revenue stream where as the only revenue stream anyone can think about is their own into SP. Right now all I see is market decap ever since hype train after generous donation aka ponzi seed. Dan and Ned's pre-mined pre-allocated pre-(what ever the fuck you want) stake (@steemit) is powering down at a princely sum of $359,002.77 per week. :P
I'm just going to go ahead and lock it in Eddie, option a) Ponzi scheme and hats off to you Ned and Dan, it's not a bad one.