I upvoted several of your comments here. Now decided to thank you for "Jeff builds a strawman argument by only focusing on the perspective blogging authors. If you want to argue that Steem is a scam, you start by stipulating that it is scam for investors, not for blog authors"

Totally agree with you, for a blogger its just an investment of time(sometimes copy paste from an already existing blog), for an investor its an investment of real money. As far as I understood, its because of coming in investors, STEEMit is able to pay rewards to bloggers.
Investors must do its due dilligence, I agree. However, additional, clear explanation from founders wouldnt hurt.

This is what we need to address at the next STEEM talk. I am confident that Jeff will bring more people to the next Talk Show, including founders and we will get more tangible info on investors concern.