Except we're like the self-employed in this regard. You can't do anything with karma. It won't impress your boss. It is just a way of quantifying how valued you are by the community. An employee doesn't really care about G at all. She cares about G* because that's what impresses the boss which furthers her own goals. But if you are your own boss you do care about G, G* is just an easy way to measure it. For me at least, this is the case with karma. I can't do anything with the number but it suggests that people like me.

So perhaps revenue sharing is a way to help address the problem. Instead of trying to come up with ways to measure what you care about, make the people beneath you care about it too. Of course this is a lot easier with money than it is with values.