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$1 salary is way more impressive than a $1,000,000 salary. Money is a crude
communication tool, and “more” is a caveman form of comparison. This bigger.
This good. Me like. No. If you are able to work for $1, it means you have taken
money off the table. Money making requires something you can count. We tend to grab
at the simplest measures. Charge by hour. Charge by project. By day. Per full
person. How much? Let the market decide. Pay as much as will get you the inputs
you need. It has very little to do with value added. Your salary is not your
value. It is simply the cost required to get your attention and effort. Someone
who is earning $1 has given that idea the middle finger. Clearly there is a
magic trick behind that. Except it isn’t magic. Capital can set people free.
Capital can do the inhuman work of being pushed in the direction of the most
efficient allocation. People, can move beyond crude tools.
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