No, I am getting MY earned tokens out, as quickly as I can, as I would have done regardless, so I can keep paying rent and having this nice computer to work on to do my mischief.

It is a strange cultural artifact of the steem culture, that if you are powering down, that it means you are somehow wishing it to die. It's a deposit instrument, like buying shares.

You sell some shares when you need some cash, right?