I am not at all sure that mining PAL is superior to just buying PAL

I would agree with the above statement based on the present condition but I have hope that as more claimdrop tokens are purchased and the price of PAL tokens increase, there will be a better ROI on PAL mining.

I wish I would have held off buying my mining token and invested in purchasing discounted tokens first. I was not accounting for the major influx of tokens in Steem Engine when I made my PALMM purchase. Lesson learned!