He didn't care if he only earned his board.
Indeed all the extant writings by which he has earned his place as a poet and translator belong to this period.
On the death of Gideon, Abimelech set himself to assert the authority which his father had earned, and through the influence of his mother's clan won over the citizens of Shechem.
Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith - Even though these two tend to lie pretty low, they earned a combined $48 million.