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Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards.

The location is unclear, you mention "many countries globally" but only include a "US" listing

alright this should be flagged. After opening the link and waiting long enough, it redirects to a micro1 page with a referral code:

`https://jobs.micro1.ai/post/774871bf-951f-4f26-9fe8-42eabfce...`

link does not work, seems problematic/spammy if poster can't check their own links

Location: Costa Rica (GMT-6) Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: TypeScript, Elixir, Rust, Node.js, React, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, NixOS, Docker, AWS

Résumé/CV: contact for full CV, portfolio with OSS contributions at https://josecodea.com

Email: look into my portfolio above

Freelance developer and consultant. I contribute to the frameworks your stack runs on — shipped patches to Ecto, Phoenix LiveView, PostGraphile, and PowerSync. Full-stack from UI to CI/CD, specializing in web apps and eCommerce.

only US it seems

You should definitely read "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" by Ursula Le Guin. It is short too!

> 3. With equity like you're serious, make the salaries low-ish. Not so low that it's nonviable for modest family cost of living, but low enough to self-select out the people who aren't committed to the company being successful, or who don't actually believe in the company.

This is how you select for anyone that cannot land a better payrate. There are startups that get better funding and can pay real salaries.

To leverage their pre-existing motivations*, which is the argument on OPs side, this pre-existing motivation is hired-for, not generated on the role.

Fully agree.

No one plans to hire their assistant based on how much they will motivate the other people that are going to deal with the assistant. Sure, it is important that they are pleasant, but that's it. Their role is actually an administrative one of brokering information. Managers are essentially the same role with higher stakes, trying to make it about anything deeper seems to be main character syndrome in full effect.