It's 2 sides of the same coin, if the curator earns less, the author earns less too.

The problem is with the STEEM POWER distribution and reward mechanism, since it is too skewed towards big whales, whom only look at tops 2-3 articles a day, and the rest of them never get a chance for any reward.

It is obviously not a good idea to have a social media with future millions of authors to be curated by just 10-20 whales, and the rest of them earning 1-2 cents, so that has to be changed.

Many people suggested a system skewed towards a reputation. I will just write an article about this, there are ideas to be explored here.