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There's a subtext in jobs like this (low-paying entry-to-mid-level, aspirational jobs in high-cost-of-living areas) that the only people who can sustain them are those of independent means (i.e. those who can get by when their salary supplements a paid-off condo, a HEMS trust and $18K/year from their parents).

It's a very common situation in journalism, politics, non-profits and the arts.

Many such cases, public-facing roles pay in "exposure". Getting your name out there, etc.

I remember a quote from when I was in Amway.

Points can’t be eaten and have no nutritional value.

No wonder those people were so angry and anti-capitalist --their own publication they worked for apparently thought they ran a socialist cooperative news org. where you work for the greater good and not yourself but you're still upset people who chose a different career, even a highschool job like Quiznos would do better.

A publication with an anti-exploration bent exploited its own.