"There are idiots everywhere, and for most people, if you give them enough rope, they will hang themselves with it," he remarked as he dusted himself off with his hands. He had no intention in staying in one place for long, not standing next to a plant that had considered eating him anyway.

"However, those people can be useful to explore this place. They teach lessons no one else is stupid enough to attempt." And their unwitted successes were also worth following in the wake of as well. He had no issue with that. One simply needed certain encouragement and compensation. "So your version of serious effort requires you to buy into the value."