I thought it might be a possible outcome and the sad thing is once most of us check out there will potentially be a whole new crew of fresh meat that comes in and gets chopped up as this small group of people drain the system and the ship continues to sink.

I'm pretty disillusioned as well and I'm glad I never went a lot deeper into the system but it looks like ultimately I'm going to lose for the most part on this investment. If I pull it now and put it towards other projects that still could be the best move though.

I will likely leave 1000 SP or so and mainly just use Share2Steem to post here from other platforms and limit my time here.

I did the math and even if I stopped upvoting others it would likely take 3 years to get my money out. That is if the price doesn't slip a lot more. These whales, witnesses, and Steemit INC might spiral it down to $0.05.