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Ah, it's the same issue that every user created content site and service with a payout system has. Because the cost of living is much lower in other countries,
by CM30 2y ago
Ah, it's the same issue that every user created content site and service with a payout system has. Because the cost of living is much lower in other countries, there's an incentive for people there to exploit these systems with useless crap in an attempt to get rich quick.
I saw it on forums with revenue sharing all the way back in the 90s and 00s. You had people from all kinds of less well off countries signing up and posting junk en masse because the tiny amount that Adsense paid out was a king's ransom in those parts of the world.
And it's been a constant ever since. 'Web 3.0' games that paid people to play had these people turn them into full-time jobs, Quora has an endless deluge of junk being posted because of their contributor program, and the same is true of everything from Medium to YouTube to TikTok and Instagram. Any time there's a way to 'make money from home', then it turns into a get rich quick scheme/full-time business for those in low cost regions or with few other options.
But hey, it's inevitable. If posting junk online pays better than local businesses and jobs do, then of course you're going to see an increasing number of people trying to get in on the hustle.
- lupire 2y agoIt's an economic welfare program. Maybe not the most efficient, but it's very Keynesian. Giving poor people money improves the overall economy.
- ToucanLoucan 2y agoExcept we could just do that, because giving people the resources they need to live is a good and moral thing to do, and just giving it to them comes with the added side benefit of not having them turn the Internet into an utter cesspool of meaningless shit.
- jazzyjackson 2y agoSeems click fraud is an elaborate way to fool the wealthy into thinking they're getting something out of the trade We had a movement that encouraged the wealthy to become altruistic and give most effectively and look how that ended up in other news, the head of Bagledesh's interim government is the microfinance dude, "access to credit is a human right", I used kiva.org quite a bit back in the day, felt much less depressing than gofundme, like people's future might actually be looking up