First off, it looks like the reward pool has been more like 51K/day lately.

So at the moment, it's on the HIGH end, with hbd.funder taking in 10-15 of the 51 (20-30%), correct?

Second off, you act as though someone is putting this in their pocket.

Through the curation rewards, 50% of this is going directly into people's pockets.

Granted it is ugly, but it is effective.

I certainly agree. Especially when some of these same folks are zeroing out content creators for political reasons, calling it "rewards disagreements," then dropping $300-600 upvotes on literal spam.

I also believe the reward pool is larger than what we need for the current user base and quality of content. Many times I have a hard time finding anything to vote and putting it into the DHF is a better option. It is much easier to vote when you have a small amount of stake, but when your vote is $200+, it becomes far more time consuming and difficult to distribute that stake well.

What a simple, practical argument for much more decentralization of stake! Why not delegate yours out to any of the dozens of communities getting by with a couple thousand HP? That's always been my model personally, to simply delegate out the earned HP - because james' delegation is more than enough for anybody to have the keys to.