Do you know how the algorithm works, like how many percentage does the first,second,third,etc.. gets?
Further some people may actually want he majority of their rewards to go to the poster.
I see curating as the main way for people to make money on the platform.
As they say, only 1% of the users of a website actively create new content, while the other 99% of the participants consume it.
Curation is extremely important because of this, steemit will have to find a way for the 99% to make money and that's going to be through curation.
In the future I can easily see 10% go to authors and 90% go to curators because that's what the demographic tells us. If you want the 99% who consume content to buy steem power you need to make it worthwhile for them.