I see your point of view as well. I am leaning toward the 50/50, but what you are saying makes sense. I just don't know what the solution is.
I spend hours taking photos and writing posts, but honestly I only make 4 or 5 dollars from them. At the end of the week, I am making about the same amount of money in both curation and author rewards.
I guess on the upside I am just powering it all up anyway, but it would be nice to earn a bit more for my efforts. Of course, one should always improve their skills before expecting too much.
I just wish that something could be done to thwart the shit posting whales who hog the reward pool. It makes the whole project seem scammy.
The solution is Trust and Relationships slow grind build up and look at what you can leverage for gaining massive long term value.
The slow grind is all that you can do unless you feel like dumping 100 grand into the platform (Which I could do, but I won't until some of the finer points are worked out). So the only questions left after that are, what can be done to improve the system overall so that it is not so easy to game.
One big thing will be real Niches + Communities + Moderators. Narrative is trying to make this into a reality. This makes it into a more professional system. Like a digital job. People focus on specific areas and provides massive value in that niche. The roles are more clear. Look at Narrative's white paper:
https://www.narrative.org/assets/documents/narrative-network.pdf
Interesting, I will check it out.