That’s a pretty low benchmark.

Pre-enshittification.

…especially on leg days.

That was quite well-executed.

Ted Cruz

Actual rate of pay has been over $20/hr as some tasks pay more. I’ve received deposits according to the schedule they’ve laid out without any issues. And I’ve not had a W-2 position for years as I have had my own businesses. Wanna buy one of my wood carvings? Tax implications are important and I put aside part of each payment for those reasons.

$20/hr or more. Seems to me that as long as you can type a complete English sentence and show some amount of discernment that you’d be able to do the job. There was a short test prior to being hired that seemed to focus on creativity.

*Orange Steal

Blue Steal

I call it “Blue Steal.”

Let’s make it non-fiction and have the setting be an arid, inhospitable, howling wasteland.

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One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise. Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac