The platform needs more than just inflation and user growth. The systems that we compare to like Facebook, do now, after having lived on expectations for a while, have an economy based on commercials and big data collection. The latter is of course a no go zone, but advertising is not. They already discuss how to make a foundation to get fiat money into the steem system. When that happens Steem will again be interesting to investors an it will rise... If not we have wasted some time, but that happens every second. It's called life. Of course this aspect is scary for wage earners, but I have worked for free so many times in my life, and nothing really happens, except you continue to be a vagrant. This is just a crisis and if we get over it (and I think we will) there will be bonuses to all who stood it out.

For now I actually do follow your advice. I have only received Steem Power for my posts since the possibility for doing so was there. No need to speculate against Steemit when it is going downwards.