For unknown thousands of years investors have been making money by increasing the value of the investment vehicles they purchase. This is called capital gains.

I recommend capital gains as an incentive for investors. I expect that few seasoned investors are very interested in buying Steem and then financially manipulating the rewards pool via curation rewards to become profiteers.

Because that's what that is: profiteering, and it reduces the value of the business and the investement vehicle, in our case Steem. You can see the fruit of that business model from the ninjaminers today. Our marketcap is declining, our token is devaluing, and our users/market is shrinking.

I'm agin' it.