### I understand you're not arguing with me and this is not directed at you ...

I think this needs to be said to address any misconceptions that stellabelle, or anyone else, owes an unbridled loyalty to Steemit for simply being rewarded for their work.

**Money does not make the individual, the individual makes the money.** She earned every dollar she was rewarded by working for it. She has no control over how much she is rewarded by those who choose to upvote her content. Had she posted the same content here and made very little money, people would have no issues with it if she left or what she had to say regarding Steemit.

**The only reason anyone is getting upset with her saying anything perceived as anti-Steemit (which it wasn't IMHO) is because she was given money by others.** But that was not a payment for her to be pro-Steemit, nor was it a payment for her to only post on Steemit, nor was it payment for her to remain only on Steemit. They rewarded her for her individual content and that was the end of the transaction.

**They did not buy stellabelle, nor her loyalty and she owes no one anything.** She is not a product that upvoters bought. Her content was the product of her work and upvoters paid her for that work and that work remains here on the Steem blockchain forever, IT can never leave, IT is loyal to Steemit forever. Stellabelle, and anyone else posting here, is free to do whatever she pleases no matter how much money her content is rewarded.

**We are all free to cash out our rewards for our work whenever we like**, unlike some seem to indicate. It's not a sign that the person doesn't believe in Steemit, just like it's not a sign that anyone of us do not believe in our employer because we cash our paycheck each week. It's because we want to be paid for our work and it's our right to cash out whenever we like.

Content creators are also being given access to only 50% of their pay each day, while the other 50% is locked up for 2 years. I can't think of any employer on this planet that holds your pay for 2 years and only allows you to cash out 104th of that 50% each week. So those complaining about people cashing out don't have a leg to stand on and it's in poor taste to attempt to demean anyone cashing their paycheck, so to speak.

I dare anyone complaining about people who are cashing out their pay for their content to not cash out their paychecks from their day jobs for the next 2 years. Put your money where your mouth is and let's see how that works out for those complaining. ;)

I admire stellabelle bravery to stand up and criticize.
Same as tuck-fheman. 
You are both very popular and established users so your voices are important.
I am happy to see people like you standing up, when voices like ours (users with little SP) are marginalized:
https://steemit.com/steemit/@logic/steemit-as-direct-projection-of-delusion-of-american-dream

https://steemit.com/anarchism/@logic/steemit-as-pioneer-of-crypto-classism-hierarchy-of-minnows-dolphins-and-whales-hypocrisy-of-pseudo-anarchist-whales