“If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys…”

The Founder of Modern Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, famously said, “If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys,” meaning that only stupid people will work for you if you do not pay very much. Or in the words of HKS Jonah Evans, if you pay peanuts, you get unemployed grad students.

Well, sometimes when you inspire people to join you in something meaningful, peanuts are just fine.

“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
(The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho)