From our Swindon Correspondent:
From the FT
Prolific a Uk-based crowd-work platform for surveys and market research, imposes an hourly pay floor by calculating the average time it takes to complete each task. But while the UK’s minimum wage for over-25s is £8.72 an hour, Prolific’s is £5 an hour.
We do charity things because there’s some personal non-financial benefit to us: our canal looks nicer, maybe a warm fuzzy, maybe some social interaction as you get to hang out with others. And there’s degrees of that everywhere in life. Actors get paid far more for appearing as a villain in a superhero movie than a film of The Seagull, because the work they really like doing is Chekhov. Programmers quit corporate work to do startups because they hate the corporate work, not because it’s better paid in startup land.
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As Mr. Swindon and I provide content to this website, which we hope is enjoyable and helps it thrive, for 0 currencies per hour. I agree entirely that gov't should not review the terms of this "work" arrangement nor any other, rejecting some contracts in order to "protect" us.
A lot of us have self-published novels etc, not for the money, because there isn't any, but for the pleasure of seeing our names in print.
Not really. While the actual salary is lower there is a higher potential payoff in terms of options/shares.
I sometimes follow the "Debt-free Wannabe" forum on MoneySavingExpert. Its a safe and supportive space for those making their way out of debt. Many use these surveys to add a few extra pounds to pay off the credit cards and most seem very happy with the opportunity. (But then the FT is probably on the side of debt slavery so maybe they want the surveys shut down.)