Upvoted because I agree in a sense. Disagree because there are no guarantees here. Maybe you make $1000 one day and then the next day you put in just as much effort but don't get the votes. Risk carries added reward.
Still rewards seem sufficient and reducing them by 1/3 to double curation rewards is a good tradeoff.
way late response, but I agree. It makes more sense to look into having authors be the one wanting to invest and new users playing a freemium version.