>So in summation: You believe that voting (which is not curation) is, "the whole point of steem," but you don't think it deserves to be explicitly rewarded. Instead, you believe that voters (who are not curators) should be conscripted into service for the authors and steem-holders to gain profits and ROIs?

I believe that the current curation rewards system is doing a lot more harm than good.
If you know a system where curation doesn't involved robots and where people are actually voting for things that they like then I' ll revise my opinion.

>Personally, I cannot subscribe to a philosophy that permits one class of stakeholders (authors) to behave parasitically towards another (voters), 

This is non sense, voters are also stakeholders.