Investor viewpoint
From an investor's standpoint, I don't power down because I don't know a better investment than Steem at the moment.
I don't want to power down ('take profit') and sell my Steem for euro's to have them sitting in my bank account with 0% interest.
So I would need to find a better investment than Steem to put my powered down Steem in. Something that grows faster than Steem.
I don't know a better investment. So I would then have to speculate on something and I do don't that.
Blogger viewpoint (not mentioned in Vlog)
From a bloggers point of view, I wouldn't power down unless I absolutely needed the money because I know that I won't be able to make the same amount of Steem tokens in the future.
My payouts might increase in dollar value if the price of Steem goes up but I will earn less Steem tokens.
There is a fixed amount of Steem tokens in the reward pool and more users every day trying to earn them.
Just something to think about when you are considering powering down.
Steempower generates more STEEM
Having Steempower also generates more STEEM because you get more curation rewards and receive a small interest on the amount of Steem power you have. If you power down you you will slowly get less and less of these STEEM rewards.
