Not sure i care as much about the market cap as you do... obviously you can see my wallet. haha
I just want a nice place to create and consume content. For me i don't create much content so mostly i just want to consume content. There's a thought that maybe market cap being down will stop this place being so reward pool centric and bring in creators that like the other aspects of social media on blockchain. But yeah i guess higher steem value increases the reward pool and that may increase the amount of creators... but I just kinda doubt serious creators will ever ever ever view the rewards pool as a real way to make money. They do this for a living and are good at it... they know they can't support themselves or sometimes entire teams of people off of this. Solid money comes from having the eyes and ears of tens of thousands if not millions of people and ads and connections with really wealthy companies like sponsorships. Reward pool is fun and nice and gives people a bit more of a voice but steem has a lot more to offer than that.
Anyway i thought your post about paid votes was about marketing a post and getting into trending.
RE: You will never make money preventing others from making money!