You put a wage behind something, it gives the act a sort of respectability.
Here is another miserable mental image I will have to catalog and make room for.
Our blood is the same, we just use it differently.
Come with me into the world and reclaim your independence. You stand to gain so much, and riches are the least of it.
...things I had come to find humor in would make your honest man swoon.
Hurried business is bad business.