Pretend you're a video editor on Mandy. You have no steady gigs. Someone needs a video cut and they're offering $50.

You probably crank through a dozen of these videos a day. This one is particularly shit as you're supposed to assemble something out of nothing - you have maybe two actual clips of the fuckin' robot flipping burgers, and for SEO usefulness you need to cobble together a clip of at least a minute.

So you raid the shit out of stock libraries - nobody is even going to notice you've got a Fanuc and a US Robotics in there - and you tie it all together with a bunch of bullshit white people writing gibberish in xterm windows.

What nobody knows but you, of course, is that the original music you cut it to was Yakkity Sax. Because you start out with all this bullshit cut to Yakkity Sax. And then, same as always, you mute Yakkity Sax and drop in BullshitBombasticOrchestra48k.aif because all these bullshit Mandy editing jobs want BullshitBombasticOrchestra48k.aif because they're so bullied and punched around by the bullshit tech firms that the creatives behind the campaign aren't even self-aware anymore. So you started the gig at 9 and it's 10:30 now which means you're half an hour behind so you launch that fucker and actualized a rate of about $30 an hour which is a little less than half what you'd be making if this was real work and you hope there's more bullshit on Mandy because rent is due in two weeks.