Do authors deserve to get paid just for publishing? If I stand on the street corner and sign, do I deserve to get paid just for doing so?
Curators get paid for holding stake. In effect, they are being paid for taking financial risk to hold stake. The default behavior is for a stakeholder to get 100% the stake rewards for their stake. The opt to give some of that to the witnesses for securing their stake. The rest comes out of their pocket (inflation on their stake) and their receiving it should be the default assumption.
Great analogy and great post! Resteemed for more visibility.
Thanks for the support. My ginabot went a little crazy while I was sleeping... It took a bit to figure out that this post struck a nerve.