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Yes, decentralization is everyone, even the sellers, but decisions (voting on content, proposals, witnesses) is done with Hive Power. I offer more support those build stake to participate in governance. Milkers are welcome to use the chain as they see fit; it's a free market like you say, but I will prefer to offer my support to people who participate by staking their HIVE. I won't downvote sellers; as I said, selling is not wrong. I just have a preference of what kind of Hive citizen I support.
Also, recent analysis by the likes of @azircon that demonstrates that MOST folks in the top 1,000 are, in fact, staking HP. He calls it the Krampus Coefficient. 84% of accounts are holding what they earn or a little more. So I disagree that holding is for the few.
Data presented properly never lies. Opinions these days are quite tricky. I therefore don't listen to opinions, just present the data. Then you can see the fact yourself.
Doesn't account for people getting liquid rewards for whatever game, curation stuff, etc.
This is just another form of narrative enforcement.
Never trust anyone who says they don't listen to opinions. Everybody does. It's a matter of whether you can support it with a tidbit of objectivity.