
The response had always been that poor people deserved nice things too. He remembered when May was alive and people saying maybe poor people would be less poor if they didn’t buy Starbucks. He could feel close to them even when they were hundreds of miles away and had no idea who he was. It was also the only thing that stopped him from crying. MJ and Ned were at MIT, but he could hear their ghosts and was less lonely.
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Because it was cheap and they had free Wi-Fi, he could study there for three hours for three dollars a day. He still went to Peter Pan for coffee and a doughnut most days. But the website just sucked, and when he had applied, he’d been told there was a five-month backlog, but it had been longer than that, and when he checked, his application still hadn’t been reviewed. He was pretty sure he was eligible for food stamps because he didn’t have a full-time job and was struggling. And he couldn’t trust anyone enough to live with them as he had a huge secret. But Tax Day was a long way away, and his rent was really expensive, considering it was a terrible studio.

The internet told him he’d get it all refunded when he filed his taxes because he was poor. But, now that almost eighteen percent of his paycheck was being eaten up, well, ouch. It was four hundred and eighty dollars a week. Peter was pretty sure Jameson wanted him to work more than that, but there was some regulation where if he worked more hours or more days, he was gonna have to end up paying for breaks. It was five bucks more than minimum wage, and Jameson didn’t ask for recommendations.Įvery morning he would go over to Jameson’s tiny studio at three-thirty, and he would edit hours of the guy’s rants, plugs for supplements and cellphone footage of himself, recycled over and over again. For twenty dollars an hour, he was willing to sell his morals and say, “Screw Spider-Man,” even though he was Spider-Man. But, it also appeared that Gen Z had told him to take a hike because he was a gross person, and most people liked Spider-Man. It seemed, from his Craigslist ad, that he wanted someone from Gen Z because he was sure someone younger understood how the internet worked better. Editing an asshole’s rants about how terrible he was for his internet show was not great. That was his day, over and over again.Īnd, like, he knew that working for Jameson was bad for his mental health.

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