I was thinking last night that the divide between the larger stake holders and the smaller ones will only get bigger at the current rate. The reason why I say that is not from unfairness or anything like that, but from peoples actions.One has to just look in Discord at the Market Feed to see what most are doing.
If you earn your rewards and sell them then how can you grow? I have sold very little and started with nothing and came in a week after most of the new users on Sports. At the current rate my vote value is growing where most of everyone else is declining. That is going to happen naturally as the more tokens are staked and distributed.
When I first joined the main reason for growth was to be big enough to make a difference and stay ahead of the abusers. I felt the place was in trouble if abusers had the most stake and needed a balance of users who cared and could fight it. My view hasn't changed and is still the reason behind the growth.
The thing is I bought my same mindset in from Steem and that is only to grow over the next five years or so and see where I end up. I never joined Sports to see how much I could make and take from it, but quite the opposite. I was late joining Steem and the reason why my account is still small compared to others, but I did learn how to grow consistently.
I honestly don't feel bad where I find myself now and believe everyone had the same opportunity and some have wasted that opportunity and are now going backwards. What happens when Steem rises above $1 or higher it is the coin that is backing all these tokens? What users are selling the Sports token for now or other tribes tokens is pocket change to what they could be worth when Steem climbs up to where it once was.
The same concept applied to Steembasicincome as when the Steem value dropped more and more invested compared to when Steem was at $4. Will users be dropping 100 or 200 Steem buying Sports Tokens when Steem is at $4? I think they will, but they won't be buying as much as there won't be loads going to market like there are now as most users wont be earning 1000's, but more like hundreds.An account wanting to purchase 1 Million tokens when Steem recovers will be forking out a lot more in Dollar value and very few accounts will be able to reach 10 or 20 Million in the future unless you grow now.
The first month we were here we would see posts earning 100 000 rewards on a regular basis and now those posts are on 30 000 -50 000 and by the end of the year most likely will be 10 000 or so. In order to get a vote value of 10 000 you need to be staking 5 million Sports Tokens and to keep that same vote value by the end of the year you would probably need 10 Million staked by then.
In order to keep your vote value up you need to stake daily and I noticed this over a period of 3 days a few weeks ago when I didn't and sold a few. It all depends on where you want to be in 6 months or a year from now as the declinig vote values will change this place immensely for most. I don't want that to happen with my account and want to support others so that is why I have decided to stake the majority of my rewards. I am not thinking about now, but more about tomorrow and what lies ahead. Most I see on here now it is all about now and are not thinking of two or three years down the line.I have never taken 1 Steem out of this place and won't until I am happy with my stake holdings.