Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!
Cash-payment is not the sole nexus of man with man.
I can't afford to pay them any other way.
When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle them to no such sums as they are receiving. As a result their boss soars out of economic into magic significance. He becomes a source of blessings rather than wages. Criticism is sacrilege, doubt is heresy.
Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.