Re:Click farms: a shadowy internet industry is booming in China
by Merrill on Monday July 22, 2019 @07:47AM
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It's the Game of Life. People play it according to whatever rules and penalties they perceive to be in place using whatever strategies and tactics they think will succeed.
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Re:Click farms: a shadowy internet industry is booming in China
by wpietri on Monday July 22, 2019 @11:56AM
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Sure, I'm not really faulting the individuals here. But we collectively set the rules for the game of life. Maybe we should pick ones with better outcomes for both individuals and society as a whole.
Re:Click farms: a shadowy internet industry is booming in China
by rightbyte on Monday July 22, 2019 @08:00AM
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And they have the wrong tactic and strategy? That they do it becouse they think it benefits them is obvoius.
These schemes to make money without doing ordinary boring dull work are ofent a waste of time if you compare your hourly wage to whatever you would get carrying bags of seed up the hill to the sawmill.
A programmer that is competent enough to write spamscripts is competent enough to work as a programmer.
Re:Click farms: a shadowy internet industry is booming in China
by sgift on Monday July 22, 2019 @08:31AM
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> A programmer that is competent enough to write spamscripts is competent enough to work as a programmer.
Only if competence were the only measure you'd need to get a job. In reality, there are various other factors like: Where one lives, how good one is at interviewing and so on.