Only someone that does have no idea of the matter can write that comment.
A developer that can write from scratch and manage a website with multiple functions based on blockchain can easily earn 80$ per hour.
If he is very skilled can double or more this figures.
The fund from blurt proposal are just something that tell to developers that the community trust them, are far far far from paying their work.
2,000 Blurt x day can pay one our of work a week, more or less, just the time spent to manage the server.