Now, something else: you say to power up here on hive, if all the small fishes do that, we would change the situation. Which would be to meet at eye level wit the high stake holders.
But to come into the very same situation the high-stakers are already in, powering up of small stake would't do it. You'd have either to take some else crypto holdings of yours, or invest fiat money. If you had either have already invested in other crypto-currency (which requires a lot of knowledge and focus and eats up your time), or being an early bird (making everything out of nothing), or that said fiat investment, you would be the whale you want to be. That would require that you have had that money as play money in the first place. Tell me, who has a.) enough play money and b.) who has the focus/ability to be good at it? Only those who spend high amounts of time and energy with that whole thing.
Since crypto is gambling, you need gamblers. I think most people aren't. Neither am I.