If we are a company, we should really start acting like one. Paying employees who are working for another company is not a practice done by any Fortune 500 companies.
Look at the situation from the standpoint of new investors. It is probably not such a good thing for them to think we have full time developers being paid by the blockchain but then find out that that is not the case.
#1 Fortune 500 companies hire contractors all the time who may be working on other things.
#2 Fortune 500 companies also have PR and we saw how that went ! We did go up from like 21 to 27 million.. briefly.
#3 Toast is not keeping the pittance but redirecting it to help BTS.
#4 No new investors would even be aware of this if Ken Code wasn't making an issue out of something where there shouldn't be one.
#5 When people get desperate and try to find problems where they don't get exist... well.. not sure how to put it, except BTS seems to be going backwards.
Honestly, I don't care anymore but it just seems very short sighted. You guys need whatever incentives you can to bring in developers. I'd like to see a breakdown of code written by volunteers across blockchain 2.0 projects. BM once stated he is against altruism in general... lol.. I didn't know where to start on that, so I ignored it. So if developer money runs out ... well we'll see what happens.
From everything i saw, Toast was the biggest force behind trying to make Bitshares more like it should be... and you guys are worried about him giving 1k a month to other developers. SMH