That was a really good post, Sarge. Pity I didn't read anything like that when I first came onto Steem a year ago... it took me several months before I even discovered the Discord servers such as the Ramble.
I was hoping you were going to explain curation rewards in simple terms for me, 'coz I still don't really understand it.
I did not go into the particulars about Curation, but even though this post is old (+11 months) it is a very good one...
https://steemit.com/utopian-io/@yabapmatt/curation-reward-estimation-tool
Hope it is helpful.