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by pbhjpbhj 2393 days ago
Serious answer: to achieve a particular lifestyle that's not available to you any other way.

We ran a pottery studio for 15 years whilst we raised our kids; very low wages, below minimum wage but paid our workers minimum wage (despite not needing to, because of age [in UK]).

The market we wanted to serve, a relatively poor UK city, couldn't take higher costs. So to provide that service - which brought us and many others much joy - we could only do it by accepting poverty wages. More money would have been good, but money isn't everything.

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Thank you.