I see many happy and well-fed users who earn $1,000 daily on the bitcointalk.com forum.
Do you mean to say $1,000 monthly? 1k daily is outrageous to think that people make such amount here.
0.5 BTC a month = 0.167btc/day = $94,000 a day if you are the administrator's friend. Or Theymos can reward you if he catches you stealing from the forum.
Yes, the days are gone where honest people can make that kind of money here.