First of all, I think the worker proposal system is a fantastic, it brings development to the blockchain faster, as we the community, can now pick and choose which project to fund and there (I hope) is transparency as far as the progress for the project goes.

However, the author cut is not going to make people happy, it also makes me a bit uneasy as well.

reasons :

No.1 being that the price of Steem and SBD, we are in a slough here and the thought of cutting author rewards in a slough can make people frustrated, however we can solve that by providing hope or evidence, which in turn goes back to what I said before "transparency" if people are kept up to date with the project this will automatically inspire them that the cuts are for a good cause.

No.2 is the results, we work hard on this platform to attain a reward. The author cuts would be in a form of let's say investment, if we cut the author rewards by 20% what kind of results would that yield and how do we go about measuring those results and compare that to what we have sacrificed in order to gain that.

thanks for reading

I'm gonna develop a post soon on "wps" to further elaborate my thoughts.