The one thing I remember @dan saying a long time ago was that this is basically an experiment. And everything each one of us does here is a part of that experiment. By my choices and actions — and by YOUR choices and actions — we make our own "statements" about how we want that experiment to turn out.

Yelling and screaming about "fairness" and "not-fairness" might offer a nice momentary release, but I think you and I have chosen to look at this and think "How can we make this WORK?" And then we take the steps we feel supports making "this" work.

A long time ago, I remember @lukestokes wrote a really meaningful piece about what amounted to "selfish altruism." By focusing on the well-being and survival of the entire ecosystem, we're ulitmately being "self serving" in that we benefit from its success. That's what I think I'm trying to do... if my efforts focus on "I want there to be a thriving Steem social ecosystem in 2025, and Steem that's priced at $25 because this is an awesome place!" that serves MY interests... and it serves yours, as well.

I'm still hopeful that we'll come up with other ways to pay the taxes owed, in which case I'll just plow the 3000-odd liquid Steem I'm holding back into powering up.