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Not a bad side gig. I forwarded this to some of my less-than-employed friends. Beats driving uber-eats and other shitty gig jobs IMO.
by antisthenes 3y ago
Not a bad side gig. I forwarded this to some of my less-than-employed friends.
Beats driving uber-eats and other shitty gig jobs IMO.
- efields 3y agoI agree. I honestly think there’s a cohort of creative types around the world who would love this job.
- layman51 3y agoIt does seem morally gray, but I was just amazed by how one of those workers makes better money than in his last job as a web developer in the Philippines.
- swiftcoder 3y agoI'm sure they aren't all clearing $500 a day, but that's what... the equivalent of a $130k/year salary? That's better than a lot of US-based web developer roles, let alone in the rest of the world.
- firewire 3y agoOnly requires a bit of creative thinking and being morally bankrupt to be good at something like this.
- greenhexagon 3y agoFor the completely unethical, perhaps. Delivering food is a legitimate, respectable and productive job. Fraudulently deceiving lonely men to coerce them into paying for more fraudulent interactions, less so. I wonder how long before an article is published about someone committing suicide when they find out they were talking to a man in the Philippines rather than the woman they thought they were talking to.
- foobarian 3y agoThey could be doing the society a service in a roundabout Darwinian fashion.
- altruios 3y agoI have rarely seen such heartless victim blaming on hackernews...
- unforeseen9991 3y agoPeople manipulating and pretending to be someone they are not has been going on since the internet has been a thing and provided the ability to be anon. "Nobody knows you are a dog on the internet" is like 1996.
- arp242 3y agoAnd theft murder has been a thing for as long as there have been people, as have all sorts of bad things. So what? We can just do anything?