&gt; Certainly, since I don&#x27;t need the money, I&#x27;d much rather earn $3 an hour on Mechanical Turk, sitting at home and picking and choosing what I feel like doing, than $7.25 an hour in a minimum-wage job.<p>You don&#x27;t need the money,  so the money doesn&#x27;t come into it.  It could read:<p>&gt; I&#x27;d much rather -- sit-- at home and pick-- and choose-- what I feel like doing, than -work- a minimum-wage job.<p>The important piece here is not what the people who have time to waste are doing with job gamification,  but the reasons why some people are investing significant amounts of time in a sub minimum wage system and presumably why this group has a large crossover with those using it as a primary income source.<p>Complete speculation suggests to me that this group contains a non-trivial amount of people who are somehow &quot;locked in&quot; by transport, mental illness, or caring requirements yet need to earn money and are more than willing to work.<p>I am very concerned that there are people cornered into living like this at sub-societal standards.  This is not ok yet I am unsure as to how to find out if this is the case.