The going “wage” for the “Rent-A-Crowds” at the heart of the crisis was 300 Baht a day per person, plus food, transportation, and a clean yellow T-shirt – yellow being the Royal color. These protests have run, on and off, for nearly 200 days, with crowd sizes ranging from a few hundred to tens of thousands. It is widely known that the anti-Thaksin business elites provided the money to keep people in the street.
泰国当前的危机中被“花钱动员来的群众”的现行“工资”，是每人每天300泰铢，外加食物、交通以及一件干净的黄色体恤衫——黄色是皇室的颜色。这些抗议，断断续续持续了将近200天，抗议人口也从几百人增加到几万人。反他信的商业精英出钱使人们待在街上抗议，广为人知。