Buy stake and counter it. Or demonstrate that the only reason you're there is to be rewarded, and when the rewards stop, you're out. Also the idea is that regardless of how large one person's stake is, its not anything compared to the next ten people behind him, so in effect if you get their attention and support, that person's stake is effectively minimized. But you like the rest of the ungrateful won't invest and aren't there to meet a challenge, you're there to be a victim and entitled only to universal adoration.