Absolutely. I might be totally wrong and this might be totally backfire. That is why it is an experiment for July which I think is worth having. Is it wrong to pay some people for their honest efforts?
Dunno, does not seem more wrong to me than the current upvote incentives, they seem to be totally rigged against worthwhile comment by new writers.
If the maximum curation reward comes from "discovering" a post that is guaranteed to go big through pile on effects because the author already is a high earner something is profoundly wrong. I say "don't play games you can't win (yet)"
Mind you I would not complain if I generated such a pile on effect myself , but say I get a 2000 SBD payout , I would find it awesome I pay out 500 SBD to a few constructive people EACH.

I think steemit.com operates on different rules, true generosity is what gets you ahead in the end, because there is no ceiling. It is not a Zero sum game, I'm pretty sure that what I give away today will come back to me tomorrow... I know that this sounds pretty hippie but it B a consequence of the properties of steemit as a platform : because it is frictionless and because the SBD i give away is matched with SP I keep accumulating. So my account grows while giving away half. It is basically like affiliate marketing, give up some percent to grow the whole thing exponentially.
I base this mostly on Kevin Kelly's new rules for the new economy
But l might be totally wrong, hence the experiment. It's gonna be fun finding out though !