I think it's asking to much to expect your posts to reward you at some monetary value equal to the work put into them. The same thing is true for curation. For example, you might think that my posts which are routinely getting near $100 per post nowadays match the time I spend on them, but from a strictly monetary reward point of view, I would be losing money, since I could easily bill someone for more than 10x the rewards for the same time spent on consulting work.

Generating and consuming content has to be first and foremost something you're passionate about for some reason. And for most people, it is, that's why "free" social media exists today. Hive expands on that idea some, by giving some rewards as a sort of bonus. But this is strictly a side benefit.