or we leverage the Steem inflation with our businesses to bring in more Steem then we expend via upvotes.

That is exactly what I have been trying to get people who read my posts to understand this concept. You can't keep earning, spending for upvotes and then dump the steam for fiat like a second class citizen.

Applications on the business sector for BTC was that made it so strong over a decade. People got to see that this is also a potential and not a join with a FOMO mentality and dump when things go hard.