...if pension funds chasing returns higher than 7% were shown a simple little slideshow. Something like this: $1,000,000 / $30 = 33,333.3333dcr 33,333.3333 / 65dcr = 510 tickets (on avg per month) 510 tickets * 1.45dcr = 739.5dcr per month 739.5dcr * $30 = $22,185 per month $22,185 / $1,000,000 = 2.21% per month 2.21% * 12 months = 26.6% annually live comfortably on less than $500,000 with enough to reinvest and grow your retirement even further. Pension under funding solved in just a short time. Granted the numbers would change a bit as market cap grows but the principle is still the same. Everyone should be looking at this and going 'Holy shit I could have an income of several thousand dollars per month for a few hundred thousand dollars in decred.' That is a marketing strategy in a nutshell.
So good news and bad news Good news: see post above. Bad news: I expect the ticket price to increase on average by 1.4DCR(or whatever the current reward is) per month... basically, because that's how fast people (like you and me) who stake get an increase on our investments. At this rate, DCR only retains >10% annual ROI for the next 3-4 years. Granted, it's a really good ROI for those 3-4 years.
Even if I had that kind of money to invest, I personally don't trust our financial system enough to put that much faith in Decred. I like to think that our bank corporations (in the USA) will lobby until hell freezes over before they will accept people living their lives on a financial system that they have no control of. Not to mention our ridiculous capital gains taxes which will take anywhere from 10-30% of those earnings (depending on how long you've held them for before selling). The taxes alone basically negate any ROI you could expect; coupled with the increasing price of tickets over the years, inflation, and rising living costs, there goes any and all profitability. It might be sustainable for a few years, but it definitely won't be profitable under those circumstances. Our financial system is as much of a scam as all the new scamcoins.