Id say you absolutely should feel responsibility towards the community. There is a fair wage for work done and that money is coming from the shared fund.
And those that do not feel any kind of responsibility should not be praised for it. These are stakeholder funds and your proposal is voted with the intent of hbd being 1 dollar.
Everything above that or under is not as intended.
When you pocket the difference and remain silent you are showing you do not deserve the stakeholder further trust or respect.
Now, if you want to put aside "morality"of everything and reduce it to the barebones, "well, hes getting payed because people are voting", you can do that.
If you want to pay someone double or triple their labor market wage, you are free to vote that but id rather see that value back in the dhf so we can maybe pay 3 more devs. 😉
The value of a dollar is so arbitrary to peg to, and is steadily decreasing anyhow. HBD should just float on its own, who cares? If I want to hold a stable coin correlated to USD, I hold USDC or similar. Those stable coins ACTUALLY HOLD USD 1:1. Holding HBD is farthest from my mind, and that will probably never change. It was a stupid concept to begin with, and still is. It shouldn't even exist. It does, and yet people are losing their minds because its value far exceeds that of an actual US dollar? Because there's virtue in pegging to something that loses 15% in real terms YoY. Fucking insane. You're in Croatia, WTF do you care about how a crypto coin gets denominated. It's totally subjective horseshit yet we are convinced we need to care about it. Fuck that.
Now youre going into the HBD fundamentals. Its a question of if you care about its intended purpose or not.
HBD has failed to live up to its purpose but when tech fails the social aspect of Hive kicks in to curb the failure of design.. Just like it happened so many times in the past. Take bots as an example where code failed us for years.
Now, if no one cares a single dev is taking 18k usd a month from the dhf and doesnt care about the drama that will cause, i wont either but i will maintain that they should.
I'm arguing if the proposal is too expensive in real terms, don't vote for it.