I've always been fully aware of how lucky I am to have a full time job so that HIVE can be more of a hobby for me. It gives me the freedom to actually enjoy the platform and not look at it as some life or death thing. I can't imagine how stressful that would be.
In the general case, for me to increase my Hive Stake it's more efficient for me to make money and purchase Hive than it is to generate Hive from posting. At some point in the future that could certainly change.
I hope it does eventually. I'd probably be buying more HIVE with fiat if there was a good on-ramp in the US.