A) awesome username, b) I love my work and hired somebody who also loves the work. I told them explicitly up front this is a relationship based on the capitalis

A) awesome username, b) I love my work and hired somebody who also loves the work. I told them explicitly up front this is a relationship based on the capitalist structure we live in and to keep an eye out for better pay but to give me a chance to make a counter. Nobody should be exploited and in my experience the easiest people to rip off are the passionate ones - which is why my advice to such people is always to get paid because somebody up the stack is siphoning off what should be yours.