There's a pretty good music scene here on steem, but small. It is hard to attract people who aren't amateurs because the pay is so low, and the audience isn't as large as on places on Instagram or Spotify.

I'm trying to show an example of how a musician can use steem with my own blog, it's fun to share life updates and music stories here. I find it rewarding even if it doesn't pay very well, and I suspect that it has been driving new listeners to my music on Spotify lately which is cool.

But the curation thing is a big problem. I agree with you.

The question is, how else to determine value of content. Is there any hope of finding a perfect metric, or series of metrics, to "fairly" distribute money? Is distribution of money and resources ultimately an unfair game no matter how we slice it?

I feel like we are still extremely early in addressing concepts of fair compensation with blockchain, and we need a lot of patience and goodwill towards each other as we try to figure it out.