I mean 'payment' for curation to the extent that you're in the top 10 of rewarded authors?
Curation should absolutely be on par with writing in terms of payment. In fact, at its inception thats exactly how the reward system worked. Curation and blogging rewards were equal.
Now, the ratio is something like 8:1 in favor of blogging. (its 3:1 theoretically, but actually much more lopsided than that in reality because a big part of the curation reward goes to the reverse auction).
The problem isnt that the curators are getting too much, its that theyre being paid in a dishonest way.