You may want to consider spending ten minutes of your time filing a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, I did last week, it took all of ten minutes. He agreed with the statement that it was time to stop discussing if Steemit is a ponzi/pyramid scheme and actually take a look at whether it actually is. When you earn money the decision should be yours what you do with it, hodl it, power up or power down but you shouldn't be held hostage to invest it back into the company for the advantage of those at that the top, nor should those at the top being given a unfair advantage over those at the bottom. If you decide to do that when they ask what the product sold is you tell them liquid steem.