As a small account holder I gotta say that trying to grow an account's Hive Power (staked HIVE) is tricky when the majority of earnings need to be spent on things like food, bills and other living expenses. This is especially true when the default split is 50% HP and 50% HBD (which is fine and all) but that plus exchange fees to convert the usually meager earnings into spendable fiat makes the whole endeavor quite discouraging.