We can't all have that particular style of job, but we could move towards a work structure where 40 hours wasn't the gold standard of "full time". As we become ever more automated we could gradually ratchet that down. 4 days a week, or 6 hours a day. It's not like 40 hours was always the norm. Go back 100 years and people worked many more hours. I'm not sure why that downward trend stopped.

> Too bad these kind of jobs are rare.

MTurk is basically this, so they're far from "rare". They're just not very interesting for first-world workers.

A big part of why they're not interesting is because they generally pay a small fraction of minimum wage. The median is about $2 an hour. So I don't think MTurk serves as an adequate example of the type of job the op referenced.

Much of the work done by stay at home moms pays less than minimum wage, though: Etsy stores, clipping coupons / general penny pinching, these MLMs.

I do think that the main difference is that the mechanical Turk work is just soul-crushingly boring.

Clipping coupons is soul crushingly boring as well. I also run an Etsy store as a side activity and make about $25 per hour, 5-10 hours a week. Median for all Etsy is still about minimum wage, which, again, is significantly better than MTurk @ $2 an hour. And I'd argue the high volume low margin work for Etsy stores looks every but as soul crushing.