Gosh. Curation is high-effort work—you not only have to take in a huge amount of news but you have to weigh each post against your gut feeling for whether it ought to be sent or not. If the value that Nostr attaches to your work is 1,000 to 2,000 sats per day then either (a) Nostr isn't valuing your work fairly, or (b) the work, while high-effort, just isn't of significant intrinsic value in this context. Both can't be true at once.

If you don't have pressure to earn something non-trivial for your 8 hours per day and this is all an investment gamble that you're willing and able to take then fair enough, respect, may the odds be with you.

Otherwise, why not explore some related business model here that might tilt the scales of fairness more in your favour, or at least see if they can be so tipped? Zap thresholds, that kind of thing? Or you've already given it a go (or some serious thought) and it's a non-starter for some reason?