Why do I get the impression that neither of you have ever had to worry about payroll...?
I do worry about payroll and I've also worked for companies whose owner's top priority was paying for their cocaine addiction, or a multi-million dollar home that they couldn't afford, or corporations whose HR was tasked with filling the company with "diverse" but incompetent employees which can only be accomplished by lowering the salaries offered to competent employees in order to fit the incompetent ones. With the exception of one company that shrunk down to a few remaining stores, the others have disappeared completely.
I have associates who own small businesses who learned not to complain to me that they "can't find good people" because they finally admitted what little they were paying them. They're not worried about payroll, they're delusional and think they can get rich quick with a crappy company and really don't get why others won't play their role in their scheme. Some of the worst are Socialists, often foreign-born, who truly believe that peasants should work for them for slave wages but have rocket scientist skills.
Worse, I’ve been on a payroll competing with H-1Bs for survival my whole life...