Except that would lead to low quality content from Hive flooding Reddit which isn't good for Hive in the long run.
An example is what you seem to be doing right now with your account.
No offense, but that's what declining rewards tells me about what you feel about the content you put out.
@acidyo actually has a unique chance to make Hive content more valuable.
The standard shouldn't be views alone, I can easily write clickbaits and flood Reddit with it knowing I'll earn $20+?, I don't help Hive or Reddit in the process, just myself.
I actually love the idea of authors focusing on creating valuable content, curators focusing on rewarding them, and sharers bringing more reach to said content for a piece of the rewards.
Authors don't really need to do it all, yet they should be well rewarded for what they put out that's valuable and worth people discussing.
But tell me something, do you, as a sharer, generally feel bad(maybe robbed) about earning $10 for sharing a content as opposed to $16 for a $20 payout?
You are turning the topic here, your statement is: 80/20 is unfair for the article author. Answer: the author is free to make a reddit account and share that himself, nothing prevents that so he gets 100%
And you ignore why the incentives exist in the first place.
But thanks for proving that 50/50 isn't exactly bad.