Nice post - @ned has a huge share of Steem and he probably needs some throwing around money.
what he does with his Steem is his business and shouldn't be seen as a bad thing.
As implied in this post, Poor guy is damned if he does or damned if he doesn't.
What we do know is he is committed, intelligent, delivered us Steem/Steemit that we love; and is hiring new staff.
If I had any critisim at all it would be if he could share more about the challenges he is facing, so we can all get behind him.