Reward pool supposed  to be for authors and curators.  I think so, but maybe I missed something here.

>Wait...you are okay for the network to pay a % for memes and articles but you are not okay with the idea that the network could fund marketing or devs?


Sometimes you make sense and sometimes not so much.  

Marketing, development etc was exactly what that fund was supposed to be for - if it was running low I might understand your argument  but there are almost 100 million Steem in that one account alone - calculate how long it would take to equal that from the rewards pool. 

Plus if you divert funds from the daily reward pool you can pretty much guarantee that people will start crying scam.

Why not both? Is my thought.

And you are right, the funds are of steemit are limited and scarce in general anyway cause of the limited reward pool and inflation, that's why we as a community have to be careful of the plans a head of us and how we will fund them. 

But with every step and every funded project we should also be seeing results over time which often drive the price up thus steemit's value and the daily pools payouts should increase and make bigger projects possible. 

I am sure I am not the only one that would be open to choose a % of posting rewards from the pool to fund projects I am interested in and believe they will do good for the growth of the userbase. But doing both would be most effective- funding for example to get a quick start to some projects could be good from steemit, but then make up plans for monthly payouts or checks from either active posting while bringing some content or blogging about it, sort of like Patreon just through rshares.

Anyway, something I am looking forward to is funding project that are open about their funds and what they do with them, I know I myself have started some minor projects that have either had a quick death or there just hasn't been enough activity, but with the downtrend for so long its not surprising that more and more people didn't bother helping out or just going afk. Having said that I don't want the platform to make the same mistakes as before where they go "oh look we are at 4$/steem and a lot of people are joining that might or might not help spread the word about the platform - here 10k $" but instead reward and use funds to those that are open about everything they do for the platform and can provide some sort of proof to it. Cause the worst you can do with the funds both from Steemit and the reward pool is having users receive a lot in the beginning and then going AWOL knowing their wallets are cryptographically secure.