Pretty soon you'll be able to buy all the Hive for almost nothing, because you will be the only one that wants it. Until you outweigh the ~36 whales that have controlled governance completely because they have >50% of the stake, you will have zero power to govern Hive. Governance is broken, bugged from the perspective of the 'people', but for the cabal that bug is a feature that enables them to keep a 100% lock on power to govern if they maintain >50% of stake weight. As long as they completely govern the witnesses and the code, they continue to extract the vast majority of stake from the rewards pool.

Unless you can buy more than half the stake, you cannot increase your power to govern Hive. Less than 50% of the stake is 0% of governance.