I do find it interesting that we have such power over each other's rewards.

But I wonder if the rewards are too conspicuous on many front ends for the reason you mentioned. PeakD does not show dollar values but the Hive Token Unit value, which is an approximation of the dollar value a post is worth in total followed by a symbol that is not the dollar sign. That's definitely a step to the right direction. I wonder if people would be less comfortable if you had to click something or hover the mouse pointer above something to see the rewards.

Speaking of the quality of my content, there are millions of extremely prolific content creators of Quora, for instance, who put out quality answers all the time. I'm in a Facebook group for Finnish hobby photographers and many of them publish stuff as good as the best on Photography Lovers here.