What most of the whales are doing isn't business savvy. It's selfish and short sighted. Having a long term business plan would include building a thriving and interesting community of people who were all working towards raising the prices of steem.

This would include development, app creation, adding content and encouraging people to participate in the activities of the blockchain. We lose so many users right now that it's not even funny. I know that everything being worked on right now is all new and needs work but we could do so much more to retain people and push the site from our side.

Even if they could delegate to communities like helpie or curie that are doing all the legwork to help smaller accounts grow and gain recognician for their efforts. In the long run it's far more beneficial for the price of STEEM to rise to $10 helping everybody rather than growing your account by 20% but the price staying the same or losing value.