okay listening to the Thiem interview
- first of all love the shoutout to my club. hehe.
- the quotes are slightly out of context. I’ll try to be exact and translate the question and the answer

the question the reporter asked referred to Millmann’s criticism of the Big 3’s initiative to create the fund (M wondered why is took a pandemic to “realize” that prize money is distributed unfairly)

the reporter asked Thiem if he was aware of the criticism, if he agrees (about the inequality in prize money distribution) and whether he had to fight his way up along the limits

so I think the answers are generally referring to the part from
Millmann’s criticism about differences in prize money, not the fund. That’s at least how I understood it.

side note: Krone is Austria’s version of the Daily Mail xx