he's saying that running a curation bot now loses money.. so change the curation to 50/50 and he can make money. That tells me that the argument is about how he can make more money and doesn't matter that the content creators take the hit.
as @lordbutterfly has spoken about ... while the DAO at the moment is not taking anything from the reward pool, you can expect that to be temporary. The blowback from the community when it was announced that the DAO would be funded by reducing authors rewards was strong, so they altered course.
Anyone listening when that announcement was made should have heard the follow on comment that it was expected that the reward pool was going to end up being used. You can bet when that happens it will be the author rewards which will take the hit.
So, if in the meantime, the authors take the hit on curation being changed to 50/50 and then take another when the DAO makes the inevitable move, how many content creators do you actually think will remain?
Only the most dedicated creators are hanging in now.
Ok. Then this needs to be thought out properly if that is the case. Nothing is straightforward on here and we have to look at how things could be gamed.