Well, 10% of the block reward is voted on by the MNOs. That's transalated to about $1 mil per month for at least the last year into the Dash economy. Not many coins can say that...
What is the point of mining and running a masternode being distinct activities?
What do non-master nodes do?
How much of the 10% goes to core dev., and what happens to the surplus?
DCG to be worthy of based on past performance. Currently every expense is line-itemed in the budget. If there is no vote surplus i.e. full 10% is never created.
MNs facilitate coin mixing, instant txs and governance functions and incur running costs. As such, they are given part of the reward for their efforts. How ever much the MNOs deem
