Why does photo stream duplicate photos on iOS?

Until Yosemite comes out it seems that we're kind of stuck trying to figure out an "easy" way to have photos display on multiple devices. I've just started messing with iCloud & the photos and when I turn on photo stream it duplicates them into it's own folder. This just seems to be a massive headache and I don't want ALL my photos to sync but I also don't want to have to go through to make individual streams for everything I want to sync/share
Anyone have a solution to this or do we just sit tight and hope they fixed this in iOS8?
Seems like a big oversight/usability thing (much like having folders in photos be useless because you still have the master folder that everything stays in.)

The photos that appear duplicated are actually there from two separate locations:
1.  Photo Stream
2.  From your Mac, an iPhoto event with a name such as "Aug 2014 Photo Stream"
You can remove the photo from one of these sources on your Mac, and then you won't see what appear to be the duplication.

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