It's the Steem version of "I'm taking my ball and going home".
If that happens I'm going to power down.
I've heard and read this statement many times in the last couple of weeks, from Developers, Bot Owners, Bloggers, and stakeholders in response to the recent flurry of change proposals.
First of all, I don't believe you! If you are still here fighting you still care.
In addition, come on guys, pre-emptive quitting? What if... drum roll, you are wrong and if there is a change, it is good?
Haven't you ever been wrong about what might or might not be a good idea before? I have.
Surrounding the proposed changes, there are a few I like and a few I don't but if any of them happen, I will do my best to give it a try and hope for the best.
My overall feeling is that if those with the most stake are more interested in stacking coins than building the site we have a long hard path in front of us anyway.
The money will flow with the values of the Stakeholders if they want to invest in and build the site and a community they will choose to spend their time and investment doing that. If they consider this a chance to hold millions of mostly valueless tokens, that is what they will continue to do.
It seems highly unlikely that any changes are going to strong arm the stakeholders into investing time and energy into spending stake on rewarding content. If we had a better distribution it wouldn't matter. If the crypto-markets were pumping, I also think it wouldn't matter.
We are in a slump with the rest of the Market and economically and emotionally it is just taking a toll on many of us.
Yes, I'm feeling a little snarky about the conversation, and yes I get the Investors want to earn, but focusing on giving Steem value seems more important to me than who gets to stack the most of them, while they are declining in value.