Curation on steemit isn't about selection of quality content. It's a matter of taking an action that has certain outcomes in 7 days. If it were about content, we would find interesting articles in trending. Curation is about hording. There are companies who do this openly - you can see over a thousand votes, but not a single comment. If 1,000 people read something, how is it that not a single person commented?

I think objectively curating content is all about me reading it, assessing if it is worth paying for a vote to get it to be seen. It is way less time consuming than waiting for some jerk to objectively come to the conclusion that my content will trend well. In the end, my content may still trend long after berniesanders and his brilliant meme's are long forgotten. Maybe something is broken, but I think it's broken in human nature, so any system will be weak to counter act those flaws in human nature.

Anyway, your article is brilliant and thought-provoking. Thanks for all the efforts!