That's a good question, @josephsavage. I guess I would have to (a) develop considerable curation expertise to maximize returns to build my own SP (which I would do, anyway) and (b) work hard on engagement to build rewards for my own posts which would be 100% powered up. It would be much slower of course... but you have to work with the tools available to you!
On an unrelated aside, thanks for SBI! One of my favorite things in this community!
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