Generally, the more essential labour is for human survival, the less money you will earn for performing it. Thinking pay denotes importance is one of the Big Lies of both feminism and capitalism. The correlation is actually inverse: the more obscure, niche, and potentially useless your effort is, the higher your income potential is because money is what we use to allocate scarce resources, including labour. We use money to entice someone to do something that they _otherwise wouldn't do_. And that is why, when money becomes limited, the highest-paid tasks are the first ones to end, as everyone reverts to concentrating on the most necessary tasks. So, the ambulance crew, the general practitioner, and the harried emergency room nurse continue—even if their pay stops—but the plastic surgeon giving people Mar-a-Lago makeovers immediately closes shop. The plastic surgeon was the only one really making any money, but he was also the only one doing work nobody needed to have done. So he is the only one who can suddenly stop work and not feel like a monster. You can see the same effect on Nostr. The most money flows toward the people most willing to quit, as those people know they aren't really needed and can bargain effectively. Everyone who thinks they are doing something important—and that other people are counting on them to continue doing it—will tend to keep on keeping on. But if their efforts go unrecognized and unappreciated for too long, or they get too fed up with watching other people getting paid for bullshit, they'll drop everything and make like a banana. When they leave, they leave a gaping hole. And if too many of them leave, the whole house comes falling down. And then you get to find out, the hard way, who was necessary and who was paid.