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Search startup Mahalo's maniacal overlord Jason Calacanis may want employees willing to work themselves to exhaustion in order to make his gamble pay off, but he's not paying particularly well for it — and he's certainly not paying wages that would allow someone to live anywhere near the company's Santa Monica headquarters, much less San Francisco or the Valley. Editorial director C.K. Sample III is looking for remote "guides" to edit search-entry pages for a mere $10 an hour, $0.64 more than San Francisco's minimum wage — and less than some day laborers make standing on the street corners of East L.A. But hey, working from home in your bare feet is so great, it's worth it! After the jump, Mahalo's pitch on Mediabistro.

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Even at rates more typical of outsourced workers in Asia, applicants are expected to be versed in "online research, journalism, and wiki markup language." While costs have gone up in the last five years, the Calacanis payscale hasn't significantly — new Weblogs Inc. bloggers typically made $500 for 125 posts a month back in 2005. But with unemployment on the rise, expect there to be plenty of interest. And hey, at least Mahalo's paying, which is more than Jimmy Wales can say for the contributors to Wikipedia.