Is there even a viable way to compensate mods financially? It seems like it'd be far too expensive, excepting a few major subreddits, which doesn't even get in

Is there even a viable way to compensate mods financially? It seems like it'd be far too expensive, excepting a few major subreddits, which doesn't even get into other issues. You'd have to eventually evaluate and manage mods, which is difficult since the evaluators would have to be good enough subject matter experts to evaluate a mod, then you'd have the problem of communities getting split because they don't like the "man" policing them, even if they are doing a good job. There are also so many subreddits already that look like tribal echo chambers utilizing a "you're either with us or against us" frame of mind that you'd just have to shut them down.