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People have been spoilt beyond belief, they also feel an unjustified sense of entitlement. Adjusting the rewards to 50/50 split simply means more curators with significant power have more incentive to vote. This is probably a net positive for authors who actually post good material, as they will be the become the benefactors of more votes from better curators.

They could use Steemfollower, manually curate and get profits from their votes while curating.

Wow I think I buy your point . Nice one!