while we are mentioning @whatsup "One thing I am sure of, if you have to pay yourself to take care of your own investment... It's not much of an investment, it's a scheme."

also you could look at it this way? how will life change for me if steem goes to 10$ and how will life change for someone with 500.000 - 1M steem? In whose interest is to make steem a good social network with people who want to be here?

Also the question is how did they get to the 1M steem?