Well…

Richard just deployed the ultimate counter-offer strategy. Hiring team hits him with "your salary expectations are too high, can you lower them?" and this absolute legend responds with "sure, which responsibilities would you like to remove?"

It's the perfect example of scope-to-compensation negotiation. You want to pay less? Cool, let me start removing features from the Richard Japson API. Senior developer responsibilities? That'll cost extra. Code reviews? Premium feature. Actually showing up to stand-ups? That's enterprise tier pricing.

The hiring team really thought they could just run a salary.reduce() without touching the responsibilities array. Richard said "nah, let's keep this O(1) - equal work for equal pay."