Hm I’m not sure I understand what you’re suggesting. We’re not going from a place of “no salary/contributors are working for free” to “US rates”. We already have US-based contributors making US rates. The goal with the comp framework is to ensure existing pay structures in the DAO (there currently are none) make sense, for existing DAO contributors before any future ones. For budget/cost-saving purposes, having clarity and consistency across existing contributor salaries is going to be more lucrative than hiring future contributors at less than minimum wage.
We already pay based on US rates, except some people are overpaid while others are underpaid. There is no consistent logic to how we pay people.
Workstreams are already spending much more than this with minimal slippage. Not sure where you’re getting your data, but as demonstrated here, workstreams making these payments has no measurable effect on GTC spot price.
I feel like what you’re suggesting here is a state of chaos/free-for-all, and bear market or not, nothing useful is going to get built that way - not to mention the fact that this won’t actually change anything about our current burn rate. As a DAO Ops contributor, I’m going to continue championing clarity and consistency in how we operate.