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We should have part-time remote jobs (20 hours per week). Something like maintaining WordPress website or designing mock-ups with Sketch. Too bad these kind of

• zozbot234 6y ago
  > Too bad these kind of jobs are rare. MTurk is basically this, so they're far from "rare". They're just not very interesting for first-world workers.
  • ineedasername 6y ago
    A big part of why they're not interesting is because they generally pay a small fraction of minimum wage. The median is about $2 an hour. So I don't think MTurk serves as an adequate example of the type of job the op referenced.
    • rrrrrrrrrrrryan 6y ago
      Much of the work done by stay at home moms pays less than minimum wage, though: Etsy stores, clipping coupons / general penny pinching, these MLMs. I do think that the main difference is that the mechanical Turk work is just soul-crushingly boring.
      • ineedasername 6y ago
        Clipping coupons is soul crushingly boring as well. I also run an Etsy store as a side activity and make about $25 per hour, 5-10 hours a week. Median for all Etsy is still about minimum wage, which, again, is significantly better than MTurk @ $2 an hour. And I'd argue the high volume low margin work for Etsy stores looks every but as soul crushing.
• ineedasername 6y ago
  We can't all have that particular style of job, but we could move towards a work structure where 40 hours wasn't the gold standard of "full time". As we become ever more automated we could gradually ratchet that down. 4 days a week, or 6 hours a day. It's not like 40 hours was always the norm. Go back 100 years and people worked many more hours. I'm not sure why that downward trend stopped.