I am actually quite confused about this, Well, ok I understand that people would want curators rewards, are hungry for success and Why wouldn't they be, someone who invested on this platform, instead of just writing posts and why can't they get a good share of their own upvote value on that post.
I mean people we are here to all get paid for the things we are writing, if it was not a paid platform it would have been similar to Tumblr or Wordpress. Even the sell point of this website is excatly this how can we ignore. Plus as a minnow I haven't seen a lot of us making a lot from our posts, ifwe are lucky enough some of our post reach a dollar if a whale manages to view it.