@nonameslefttouse ... actually, we do... my collaborator did research on the paretto effect trying to overthrow it in the web3.0 and reward incentivised platform... however after taking 2yrs of data about active accounts and transactions - only 1% of the active accounts are content creators - following the perfect thumb theory.
Why people don't curate anything? Well, they see steem as a business, not as youtube cat videos and just slapping that like and moving on, they have invested lots of money or time or both... and currently its easier for them to do what they are doing today than to actually curate.
50/50 will incentivize again the crowd voting - at least we are hoping to do it.
If HF21 is not helping enough, we need to adapt more and might even put more drastic solutions forward. We can’t expect people to not behave in their own self interest, thus the system has to be tweaked so that curators self interest and the self interest of stakeholders is in-line with the good of the platform (Steem).
I've already made some good observations and reported those findings within my recent post here...
... so I don't really feel like it's a guessing game anymore.
Now we just need a great idea to help create demand for STEEM combined with attracting curators. That's probably a good next step after the dust settles. I wonder who would think of a great idea though. We're going to need someone who talks in billions of dollars to be able to pull this off. Hmm.