It is interesting to correlate the steady erosion of STEEM's price in the market with the negative balance of power ups and down - we can see that lately there's more "powering down" that up and that subsequently the resulting Steem finds its way toward the exchanges and is sold, putting a downward pressure on the price.
What we don't see, and this is THE BIG weak spot of today's blockchain systems, is WHO does what - because it is so easy to create shill accounts and hide behind screen names and false identities where one can contend all he likes that "bankers are bad", "government is bad", "cryptoanarchy", etc. ...
The talk that we are reading and that trends up high on Steemit is possibly ... a scam. Those "beating the drums" against the "powers that be" do not genuinely want to bring freedom and liberty to everybody but would rather REPLACE the "powers that be" with ... themselves, hiding behind several accounts, draining value from fiat money toward cryptocurrencies and then manipulating the cryptocurrencies because they cannot manipulate the fiat (the bankers have the monopoly on fiat manipulation ...)
In a sense, it's a bit like the Bolshevik revolution: "Rise up against the unjust and cruel reign of the Czars, kill the landlords, expropriate ... we'll then replace the Czar with a new regime where you are going to be a slave to us instead ..."
The new Steemit nomenklatura is manoeuvering behind the fog curtain of shill account to replace the "old world order" of bankers and governments with the new world order of ... themselves. "Fairer, less cruel and unjust ?" You have to be kidding ...
Are you saying Steem is a government conspiracy?
No, certainly not, governments are too incompetent for such a thing ! :-)
What I'm trying to say is that there are a lot of untoward manoeuvres going on in Steem (as everywhere in the world, humans are reliably awful) that one can see if one looks carefully (thank God, the blockchain is transparent).
Those that tell you "we are going to help you break free of the yoke of the bankers and governments" hope that you'll complete the phrase in your head with " ... and be free !".
What they think themselves but refrain from uttering is rather: " ... and replace it with OUR yoke instead!"
Thanks for the response. BTW, it’s a real breath of fresh air to read your work. The level of quality writing and reasonable opinions here is almost non existent so when I come across some I like to give a “thank you”. :)
thank you for your kind words