"so why should the 1% authors receive more than the 99% lurkers?"
Well, the obvious answer is 1 author provides more value than 99 lurkers. Or 999 lurkers. Or 9 million lurkers. Lurkers are useless.
Curators are not lurkers, they are hard workers who can't be differentiated from lurkers by 99.9% of us other than by stalking the steemd page and looking for votes.
I'm defining lurker as non-author who doesn't vote.
I fully agree that curation should be more rewarding, but perhaps something between 25% and 50% would help. Maybe a small portion of the pool each day could be set aside as a boost to curation payouts. Perhaps the formula itself needs changing.
This jerrybanfield post is the first time I'm seeing your comments. Great curation efforts!
I'll be following you now.
Thank you for your support!