I'm not in this to get rich either, but can understand the short sighted mentality of some that want to just accumulate as much as possible as quickly as possible. The issue is that without the masses getting hooked and taking ownership of their steem accounts there isn't anyone there to purchase the coins from the whales.
IMO 1 whale deciding to sell right now would drive our prices down to at least 20c again, most likely lower. Why? Well there aren't enough people who see a bright future on steem to want to purchase a ton more steem. So it needs to get low enough to make a few that already have a lot of steem to say F it, lets get more.
Personally I think that the minnow push is great. But honestly I think a push for more Dolphins would be much more beneficial to the long term success of Steem. The votes cast by a 500sp account don't really make any impact on an account. But is a 5k sp account stops by and drops a 100% vote you notice it. No it's not going to make your day like when theycallmedan stops by, but those dolphins can really make a difference over the course of a year.
Anyways very noble of you to put this out there. Wonder how many people will actually listen.
I would push for more dolphins too, but it takes a lot more to make those. If we can get people to minnow them they are more likely to stick around and may get to dolphin eventually. It seems a few have done that recently, but I cannot claim credit
For sure the resources needed for dolphin are massive compared to minnow. One day between @pifc, @minnowbuilder, and my personal account I hope to be able to make a real difference. For now we do what we can for smaller accounts and try to encourage real engagement. It's not easy, but think the curation contest with @pifc has done a pretty good job of this.