Be honest. The reason you take the second candidate is because they’re easier to exploit.
Jfc - I know a lot of founders personally and they’ll all say that in private. You’re online - on an anonymous forum. You’re not at risk for saying something that we all know. Stop lying.
Hmm, so let's say you are hiring a guy to build you a fence. One guy keeps talking about all the potential designs and tradeoffs and can show you what he did with each one before, and the other guy is like, whatever man, it's a fence, I'm licensed - you are only hiring the first guy because he's "easier to exploit"?
If Person A wants to do X, and Person B wants somebody to do X for them, they agree on a fee, then I call it a win-win situation.
Wannabe-capitalists call it "exploitation" and pretend they're badasses comparable to the truly horrible kinds of exploitations that happened 100+ years ago (or in some other parts of the world they never been to).
Jfc - I know a lot of founders personally and they’ll all say that in private. You’re online - on an anonymous forum. You’re not at risk for saying something that we all know. Stop lying.