Depends on who you ask.
If you were to post 1 article per day, and self-upvote it, then you only would have to cast 3 additional votes to break even against dilution.
Additional votes to support the community would let you grow your stake.
See you are doing it the right way. :)
When you power-up steem, you got 1.299% dilution recovery in 2018, but as of today its 1.754%
This difference is because many users power down. Maybe we should ask everyone to powerdown, whehehe, just joking...