I am still curating for free. For the pay service, I intend to do it solely with leased steempower. Thats steempower that I did not have. It seems like a win win situation for everyone... The people with the extra steempower do not have time to curate, so they sell it. By buying it, I can pass it down to the content creators. This is the side effect of a free market system. If the whole platform "goes like this" it may cease to exist, or evolve into something else