Its like you all live in your own little world of delusion. None of what you wrote matters in the slightest.

he wants $100 a day, full time ( $36,500 in a 3mth rolling contract)

Id never support his proposal for the same reason i do not support Howo or Netousos or yours for that matter. The point is that his proposal was more reasonable then yours (although it should not have been supported) yet it was shot down.
In any normal work environment you would not even be considered for that job, you probably couldnt even apply since you lack qualifications for it.
But hur hur, Justines popular and its a closed group of people.

I also didn’t like that he stated he got the Bittrex listing as a reasoning of why he should be paid (Gandalf did that and saying otherwise was bs)

I got the whole story there. Gtg got it, Birdinc was involved somewhat. Sure. Who cares? I never mentioned Bittrex anywhere. Not an argument for you to get the 30k

The group stated they didn’t want to do proposals too soon as we needed to actually get some shit done first

Huh? There were proposals flying 2 days into the fork. Your buddy Netouso has 2 proposals for 500 HBD for "CONTINUAL DEVELOPMENT".

YOU VOTE THAT PROPOSAL!

and youre telling me with a straight face:

I didn’t think money should be asked for before work was done.

You dont find that hypocritical? Or its ok because he is your buddy and theres whales behind him?
You guys are turning HIVE into a cartel driven project. Its not as bad as having a lunatic in Justin Sun at the helm but it aint great either.

The reason my post got as much engagement as it did, and yours for that matter is because theres a huge part of the community that opposes your proposal.

You want to be about the community? Reduce your funding to something reasonable. Or you banking on a few folks from slack to vote you up and slap down anyone who disagrees.