the idea of paying bitUSD to worker is interesting and make sense.
but it will bring some challenge, the committee will need to borrow bitUSD, and sell BTS periodically with high enough price to cover the debt position.
let's first do some calculation.
currently the reserve balance is 1,029,940,606 BTS, if we put half of these balance to collateral with a low enough price say 0.0018USD/BTS as"my margin call price", we can get 463473 bitUSD.
suppose we set budget at 80USD/hour, then these bitUSD can offer at least 241 days.
to make this happen, we need:
1.developers provide the necessary change, maybe a hard fork is needed?
2.committee draft a plan to borrow bitUSD and sell BTS periodically, committee will play the role a little like FED.
surely the precondition is that the community reach a consensus on doing this.