The article isn't really clear on what's meant by this. I assumed it was people being paid to roleplay characters in games, which isn't a horrid idea per se, ex

The article isn't really clear on what's meant by this. I assumed it was people being paid to roleplay characters in games, which isn't a horrid idea per se, except it would only make sense for important characters that benefit from skilled improv acting talent. It would be laughable for random NPCs to try and make a place feel alive. But the article also seems to refer more to doing labor in pay to earn pyramid scheme games. Both are pretty stupid. But the former reminds me of the most preposterous part of the Ready Player One movie where it is revealed at the end of the movie that one of the founding developers was secretly the museum curator in the game world the whole time. Which was just... bonkers to try and comprehend that this intelligent, highly skilled person, was roleplaying as a curator in a museum dedicated to his dead friend, catering to teens, and doing non trivial amounts of labor every single day, pretending to not be sentient.