I agree that investors should be able to reap a return on their investment too as long as they are contributing to the platform either by upvoting worthwhile content or posting worthwhile content. Otherwise, what's the point of steemit as a platform? It might as well be just another crypto. I think the ability to interact and lock information into the block chain is an important component of the platform too.

My concern with your comment is that most of the comment you have posted is not your own content and I wonder whether it adds any additional value to the platform. I then wonder whether this reply to you comment will also be considered to be adding just as much value to the platform as your comment and be upvoted accordingly or this won't be a consideration as it opposes your views on the subject? I would like to believe that this platform can also be used to reward other people for their creative content and not be another avenue for greed. I don't have an issue with self-upvoting per se, if users are kind enough to spread their power and goodwill to other users and vote up quality content. To post a comment on another users post, self-upvote it and not give that users post an upvote too is plainly wrong though. If they had not created the content, then you would not have the opportunity to post a comment to self upvote. Those are my views.