Well, to downvote your post would cost me some voting power. I could upvote some post instead and by doing that earn some money...for downvoting I can get some fun, but no money.
By now I would probably even start to realize that active downvoting destroys community effectively with the consequence of Steem prize going down.
I guess the 700,000 Steem purchase is a thought about doing it in the future. Nothing like a sucker punch title to get you to read a post.
700,000 Steem is worth about 100,000$ now. I guess the message of this post is that anyone who is willing to invest 100,000$ into this platform should get the status of a whale, those setting the prize at 0.01$ for 1 Steem for @james-show to buy in. Is it possible, would a whale be willing to sell his whale position for 100,000$ ? Well, probably yes.