My vote goes to the status quo, let it earn some freaking dividends/growth before you go planning how to spend it back to 0. Worse yet issuing more shares to pay for additional equipment. I think the wall-street mentality is too strong in the last page of this thread.
Having a known declining income (difficulty) with plans to bump it back up with equipment purchases from the growth fund is a steady, and predictable route which may infuse confidence in the assets future. Investing the growth fund into other assets to which we have no control is essentially gambling with the growth fund hoping it pays off. Go back to the start of bitfunder, or further back to glbse and the loosers outnumber the winners by a large margin, should the "board" start trying to pick winners my 12% will be sold off.