This is the tip of a very large iceberg. I knew a woman who was paid to click ads, she earned less than 1 euro a day, on average, but it was better than beggin

This is the tip of a very large iceberg. I knew a woman who was paid to click ads, she earned less than 1 euro a day, on average, but it was better than begging - which seemed like her only viable alternative since her age ruled out prostitution. Factor in the cost of the laptop and internet connection and she was really getting a net negative sum. She was fortunate though, thanks to previous decent income, she owned an apartment complete with a lodger. Although he was barely earning much more as an online salesman for some kind of ponzi scheme that was, one day, going to make him rich. Last I heard he was owing months in rent since he wasn't even receiving the tiny amounts he was supposedly earning. In both instances we're talking about reasonably intelligent people who were just caught in this trap of near zero earnings with no opportunity of escape that wouldn't involve a prolonged period of much worse.