Hey @shane!
I am rewording my reply and moving parts of it where appropriate following @b3n recommendation. 
Sorry for hijacking the conversation too far from the initial topic.
Meanwhile, a company like POKTScan invested the better part of 3 months into geo-mesh, involving many engineers. That work was paid for by POKTScan and the idea of a reimbursement proposals is to recoup what it cost that company endured. That is absolutley fair.
100% PoktScan should be compensated, I have never said the opposite.
It’s only the numbers that triggered some frustrations and I think I have provided more than enough context to see my point of view. Perhaps the right/fair amount of POKT is even higher than the ask… Read in my reply in the other thread what I mean with that.
What I vocalized here is only my point of view but I might be utterly wrong of course!
I agree that with proposals being essentually “black boxes” it is hard to distinguish what is what. The only way to proceed in a fair manner is to have transparency.
I totally agree that transparency is necessary otherwise trust is lost and we are back in Web2 realm.
To be continued… 
I will reply quoting the relevant parts and detail my train of thought here: Compensation Structure for DAO Contributors - #54 by deblasis