I know that everybody likes passive income

But if we start to feel entitled to staking rewards and say things like "ETH is meant to be staked", we've changed the purpose of staking from 'securing the chain' to 'providing passive income' to stakers

imo, this lowers the value of the entire Ethereum ecosystem

executive director @ethstaker // stake responsibly //
be a kind human // nomadic

IMO it’s so important to ensure recognition of staking as the act of putting up collateral to assure you will do a good job of maintaining and securing the network: operating the physical infrastructure underpinning the decentralized web. 

It’s not abstract passive income, but compensation for validation’s work.