It’s not reasonable to bill an employee for their boss’s travel tastes
From the evidence above the deal was pretty clearly $1k/mo + NL pays for stuff. Reading the interview transcript, Kat’s saying this can be thought of as being worth $70k isn’t an offer to pay $70k with deductions for stuff.
Now, Chloe clearly didn’t end up liking the deal and I think the deal was probably not legal [1][2], but those are different objections!
[1] When they were in Puerto Rico $1k/mo ($5.68/hr) was below the minimum wage.
[2] Multijurisdictional employment is famously complex, and digital nomads commonly ignore the legal requirements of working from the various countries. I have no evidence on how NL handled this, but since it’s so hard and so rarely done right my guess is NL commonly was employing Alice and Chloe illegally.
From the evidence above the deal was pretty clearly $1k/mo + NL pays for stuff. Reading the interview transcript, Kat’s saying this can be thought of as being worth $70k isn’t an offer to pay $70k with deductions for stuff.
Now, Chloe clearly didn’t end up liking the deal and I think the deal was probably not legal [1][2], but those are different objections!
[1] When they were in Puerto Rico $1k/mo ($5.68/hr) was below the minimum wage.
[2] Multijurisdictional employment is famously complex, and digital nomads commonly ignore the legal requirements of working from the various countries. I have no evidence on how NL handled this, but since it’s so hard and so rarely done right my guess is NL commonly was employing Alice and Chloe illegally.