I wholeheartedly agree. Curation is important, and should be rewarded. On many platforms, you're actually expected to comment and engage with existing content before publishing your own. Which makes sense - it's how people learn and understand the platform before contributing to it. On steemit it seems to be the other way around. If you do not publish or invest money, your votes will never mean much.

There are more readers than writers in the world, and they should have the power to reward GOOD writers.