• colorless_squid@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Why can’t they just work like normal human beings like us, so that they can provide for their family and their pets? Ugh. So frustrating!

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      1 year ago

      Because being on the show is a transaction you agree to where you trade dignity for easy paychecks, at least for the later seasons. Even if TLC is only paying them 1000 USD each per episode (minimum I could find with a quick Google), Brandan and Mary would have made $36000 so far from this season alone. If you divide that payment out through the course of a single year it is roughly $98.50 per day compared to the convienence store’s ~50cents per day.