At the same time they are paying their members 100-200k USD a year, which is a lot, especially that these people can have other sources of income and probably do. The rich are getting richer and nothing changes for Bitcoin.
Yup, but they also support/pay salaries to the core devs (possibly the only good thing about TBF).
Who was in charge of the foundation's funds and deciding who gets what and paying their wages? Sounds like they've just been giving themselves extravagant salaries and now they're screwed cos there's not enough money coming in. Doubt they care they got their piece of pie. Suppose they're thinking it was good whilst it lasted, though.
I've no idea who and how decided on salaries, but I doubt it has been put under voting among regular members.
They knew they don't have enough revenue stream long time ago. Now, when nearly run out of funds, Murck is talking about "restructuring". The right time to do it was ~2 years ago.
Apparently Gavin Andresen is not on the payroll from 1st April and stayed as volunteer. Not sure about other devs.