Where would the money come from?
Apart from direct L2 revenue such as advertising or end user paymium features, the money could come from a DHF proposal that is supported by stakeholders. The level of and continuation of funding would need to be supported by a case that the L2 activities are aligned with supporting and growing Hive, which is not the case now.
That is my hope as well.
To be clear, this wouldn't address your issue of adequately paying creators, which would still need to come from consumers via advertising or subscriptions at level 2. It would be more of seed funding, and a way to transition from L1 to L2 management of rewards without an abrupt cutoff of funding. In theory, if stakeholders were agreeable, the funding could even be unchanged at that point of transition. Such a change need not be seen as "getting rid of L1 rewards" so much as restructuring how they work and getting explicit buyin from stakeholders that they are worthwhile at any particular level.
But it can lead to it. Base layer is limited as I dont think it can sustain any serious creator ecosystem and obviously stake holders right now would rather spend their voting power on voting stabilizer comments then spending it on other users, contributors, authors, writers, whoever.
So its obvious they see value elsewhere.
Its also limiting as it doesnt encourage the search for alternative sources of rewards or innovative systems.
yeah, completely agree. I do mention it in the post... we need to develop an idea of how to use that inflation taken from author rewards in a efficient manner.