That heat in your chest when prices outrun your paycheck has a name. It's wage dignity, and it's asking you to draw a line.

The thought behind it

The work here is precision: calling the thing what it is instead of what it has been politely mistaken for. In Quiet Power restraint is the whole discipline, and it pays in a currency nobody else can see. Read it again for “15”. That is the point at which observation turns into a decision.