"We should be incentivizing people to invest into the ecosystem and ultimately make the platform more valuable. " Quoting your sentence I agree 100% this place will crash if the value of this place goes down. Speculating hurts a lot of cypto-currencies.
How can some one trade a cypto-currency, if the price is constantly going thru wild swings. This place needs stability to bring in more talent.
Thanks for sharing your ideas !
I agree that we should be working towards a long term increased value of the steem currency and keeping investors here.