"Not everyone can just lay off employee's and sell off reserves..."

That's the business model of profiteers and they presently extract ~90% of the rewards from the pool. EIP will increase that by another 40% of the remaining rewards, creators presently share. Common sense rules business and investing. Extracting even more of the rewards will further decrease the value of Steem, the opposite of capital gains. Millions of Steem are powering down right now to sell before the price crashes.

What does your gut tell you? Listen to that. It's common sense, not BS.