"I'm aware" He spoke, letting out a sigh. "Unfortunately, you don't speak for the majority. It'd be nice if you did. But the state of how things are now just proves just how much the Republic has taken the Jedi for granted. And it may take the Jedi seceding from the Republic to see just what they'd do without the Jedi doing everything for them for them to truly realize just how vital the Jedi are. The Republic won't last a month without the Jedi and they should know that" he would add.
"I own a nice home in the woods, actually... But no thanks to the Republic" he revealed. "On my Sanctum salary, I don't think I'd even be able to pay upkeep on my ship. I hardly could with Republic pay and my old ship was a really old model. I refrained from upgrading until I could afford it, both the ship itself and the upkeep" Josh would admit. "Funny story on how I got the credits actually... I was on Tatooine and this doofus got himself in trouble with some debt collectors. He claimed they were criminals so I scared them off. I was really young at the time and he decided that as a... -Cough-... "Reward"... He'd give me his business for free as he wanted out of it. Turns out he had been underpaying his employees, had a load of debt and wasn't using the profits to advance the business. So... While he did it to free himself of debt at my expense, I changed how profits were being handled as well as how the business was run. I had a more open mind and listened to worker suggestions. Their suggestions were great and I ended up using nearly every single bit of the profits to pay the employees and to further the business so we could make more money. I took very very little for myself for a very long time. The business became incredibly successful, and made a lot of credits, and the employees kept asking me to take some of it for myself because I had refused to, and was just running on crappy Republic Jedi pay. When I left... Well, they threatened to quit if I didn't take a bigger piece of the pie, figured I could afford to and needed to stop being so foolish and reward myself. So I used the money to have a nice place built in Naboo for me to go into exile for a little while, re-train, clear my head, base my slaver bashing operations out of. Stuff like that. And to run the business from too, of course, but my manager there does well with it when I'm not able. I'm even able to afford upkeep on a better ship. Not thaf I bought a new one when I upgraded. I was given a new ship as reward for a Republic invasion but kept it in storage because I couldn't afford to keep it running with meager Republic pay" The Jedi would explain. "So I'm happy with my financial sithation now, but only because I've done it outside of my employment, and on my own"
