What's it to you what he does with the funds he earns? Yes, I mean earns. He takes the time and effort to go through the listings of posts and find some quality posts. He links to those posts. So, I link to those posts and upvote the post because I found them through @dragonslayer109 and then upvote him for the work he's done.
He's doing traditional curating, not the race to upvote a good post first that is called curating here. He has a following who will take the time to read his post and then go to those he's listed and upvote them. That puts eyes on them they didn't have before.