In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
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There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid.
Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.
You stick a credit card in a machine, and you pay $3 or whatever it is to get cash - your own money.
In precisely the same way money is often hired, and the hire paid for the use of it is called Interest.
Work is the price which is paid for reputation.
Business? It's quite simple; it's other people's money.
Money creates a power relationship between the payer and the payee.
We get paid for bringing value to the market place.
The money's the same, whether you earn it or scam it.
Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.