Precisely, there is still the electric cost of running the node, buying the Pi, and so on. We should have at least one node in every country. The Committee raises enough funds (use a UIA or a Worker) to create a new neighborhood of nodes, they get the nodes online and the chain on IPFS then step away. The Committee must ensure that the nodes are as Union-diverse, corporate-diverse and geo-diverse as possible (EU, NAU, AWS, Azure, DigOcean, Evennode, Slovakia, Amerika, India, Paris, Beijing, etc). A bot can literally be just a few lines of code (IFTTT) for a reboot, etc. It just sits there and does what it is programmed to do. Reliable bots rarely need human intervention so why should we pay so many humans to "manage" all these machines? If a bot is coded right, it is very lightweight and could just be a relay for another node in a sense, a ping, its own vpn even, protecting the other nodes privacy. Sorry if I am not answering the question good enough, still thinking aloud about this myself.