They get paid so little because there isn't any other legal means to exchange a bug into money. A monopoly on the only legal way to sell goods means that you g

They get paid so little because there isn't any other legal means to exchange a bug into money. A monopoly on the only legal way to sell goods means that you get bad prices. But I do wonder if it would be possible to set up a legal alternative. I suspect if you did you would find law makers lobbied to make it illegal and it would already be decided as unethical by the corporate designed ethics systems.