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>I think it would have been less work for them to be legit My neighbor had a brother who was a "black hat" and when he explained to me how he ran his scams, I

>I think it would have been less work for them to be legit My neighbor had a brother who was a "black hat" and when he explained to me how he ran his scams, I came to the same conclusion.

nitrogen 6y ago
>I think it would have been less work for them to be legit I had the same conclusion when someone told me about the dozens of cheap/used Android devices they and their roommates used to get paid to "watch" ads. Apparently there are apps that will pay you for ads you watch, and you can babysit them pretty easily to make like..... $200/mo.
- barumi 6y ago
  Just to keep things in perspective, $200/month is already the median income of some places.
  - Const-me 6y ago
    Which places do you have in mind? Globally, the median is close to $800/month per household.
    - barumi 6y ago
      > Globally, the median is close to $800/month per household. You pulled that number out of thin air, didn't you? I mean, some european countries like Bulgaria have a median household income of around 400€/month. Do you honestly believe that Bulgaria is one of the world's poorest countries? Getting back to reality, according to wikipedia, which cites OECD, India's median income in PPP is currently around 2500$/year. India ranks 43rd in the world's median household income ranking. https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=IDD https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=IDD
      - Const-me 6y ago
        > You pulled that number out of thin air, didn't you? I used a calculator. Annual figure is from there: https://news.gallup.com/poll/166211/worldwide-median-household-income-000.aspx https://news.gallup.com/poll/166211/worldwide-median-househo... > some european countries like Bulgaria have a median household income of around 400€/month. Irrelevant. Medians don’t aggregate the way you think they do. To compute global median, you need to know shapes of distributions in each country, and population of the countries.

>I think it would have been less work for them to be legit My neighbor had a brother who was a "black hat" and when he explained to me how he ran his scams, I came to the same conclusion.

nitrogen 6y ago

>I think it would have been less work for them to be legit I had the same conclusion when someone told me about the dozens of cheap/used Android devices they and their roommates used to get paid to "watch" ads. Apparently there are apps that will pay you for ads you watch, and you can babysit them pretty easily to make like..... $200/mo.

barumi 6y ago
Just to keep things in perspective, $200/month is already the median income of some places.
- Const-me 6y ago
  Which places do you have in mind? Globally, the median is close to $800/month per household.
  - barumi 6y ago
    > Globally, the median is close to $800/month per household. You pulled that number out of thin air, didn't you? I mean, some european countries like Bulgaria have a median household income of around 400€/month. Do you honestly believe that Bulgaria is one of the world's poorest countries? Getting back to reality, according to wikipedia, which cites OECD, India's median income in PPP is currently around 2500$/year. India ranks 43rd in the world's median household income ranking. https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=IDD https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=IDD
    - Const-me 6y ago
      > You pulled that number out of thin air, didn't you? I used a calculator. Annual figure is from there: https://news.gallup.com/poll/166211/worldwide-median-household-income-000.aspx https://news.gallup.com/poll/166211/worldwide-median-househo... > some european countries like Bulgaria have a median household income of around 400€/month. Irrelevant. Medians don’t aggregate the way you think they do. To compute global median, you need to know shapes of distributions in each country, and population of the countries.