curation is fundamentally flawed and a key design issue of steemt. At this point i think this in combination with wealth distribution is be biggest problem of steem.
Curation can be solved. Just pay curation reward on activity. and now people will vote for what they like. it may still allow you to sell votes but there is not as much of an incentive any more as there is today.
The wealth distribution could also be solved via dilution long term and by steem just delegating their wealth a bit more aggressively short term.
This make a whole lot of sense. It really doesnt make sense to have curation based upon the power of "who am I following". I guess the intention is to find quality content and be early to upvote it...but how many are doing that...especially those with a lot of SP?
And wouldnt short term aggressive delegation dilute steem more in that time frame too?