RE: You call yourself a curator?
I agree with the efficiency of cities, and collections of groups of people - even two people living together is more efficient than one. more arguments though ;)
We need people to build tools that don't rely on just votes for curation.
This is for the frontends I think, the inflation pool rape shouldn't happen on the Steem pool.
If you don't hold a lot of Steem, even if you are the one to discover a post and share it around and be responsible for actually curating it, you don't get shit.
Depends. @ocd pays their curators, so does @curie I believe. @acidyo at least has made it somewhat of a job and I am guessing that some of the people who do it well enough get paid more in SP than I do curating with my stake. I don't know the actual pay though.
Yes, we need tools that pay normal users in percentages of curation for finding awesome posts. If you aren't involved with those small curation efforts, you get nothing, even if you point them towards those amazing posts. This whole place is built on this false premise that stake can curate. Now we have to build tools to fix this broken mess.