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- I would not hold my Steem Power - I would power down and sell.
What do you mean by "If there would be no financial gain"?
No curation rewards (and/or) no upvote value?
Or there would be upvote value, just the people would not be able to self-upvote?
But many people have multiple accounts, so that would not work.
Selfish and greedy people would upvote themselves either way.
These actions are not (directly) coming from holding Steem Power, but from using it.
Only the 15% of the distribution is coming from holding Steem Power.
The question should be more detailed/clarified, because it is not completely obvious.
Edit: You wrote "no financial benefits for you of any kind", so the question is cleared by this.
This means all of the above, which are no curation rewards, no 15% distribution, no author rewards by self-upvoting.
I am not going to lie. Everyone is doing this for the money.
If there would be no financial gain by holding (and/or using) Steem Power, then what would be the point of holding large amount of Steem Power in the first place?
Or any amount of Steem Power.
If there would be no financial gain by holding Steem Power, then probably the whole Steem blockchain would fail. Everyone would leave the Steem blockchain.
As there are already many people are left (and still leaving) the Steem blockchain.
Before you would write that I am lying, I tell you that the numbers are not lying.
High Steem Price ===> More people are active on the Steem blockchain, and the people are more active in the Steem blockchain in general.
Low Steem Price ===> Less people are active on the Steem blockchain, and the people are less active on the Steem blockchain in general.
The whole Steem blockchain (and the activity of the users on the Steem blockchain) are driven by the money.