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[Buffy] Why didn't the Watcher's council bankroll the slayer?

Like, Xander brings up that she could start charging for her services and they all shoot him down as if that's super immoral...

But it makes so much more sense to give her a stipend or something so she's not balancing a day job and slaying.  What do they expect her to do, never sleep?
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Buffy and the Watchers weren't on the best terms for a few years - right before her high school graduation, she basically fired them and refused to follow their practices or accept the Watcher they'd sent (Wesley) to replace Giles.

But even once their relationship had been somewhat repaired a few years later, the Council held pretty firmly to their conviction that their job was to observe and command the Slayer, who was essentially their tool.  They didn't care much for the welfare of their tool as long as she could keep staking bad things.  By the time they'd conceded that their job should be one of support, they were destroyed by the First Evil.