"among other basic questions"... If this stuff is being given as if it's worth something, you need to know what that value is! And it's no good asking the peo

"among other basic questions"... If this stuff is being given as if it's worth something, you need to know what that value is! And it's no good asking the people offering it you. Of course they'll tell you it's worth a lot! Whether they believe it or not - something about which I am genuinely agnostic - for every cynical, reptile-eyed psychopath, there's somebody who's downed a yard of koolaid - it's in their interest to emphasise the potential value of non-hard-currency compensation, because it's cheaper to pay you that way than it is to find the (supposed) equivalent in actual money.