It might also sometimes crawl a bunch of web pages or code repositories on behalf of some AI company so the site operators can’t effectively block them. Surely that’s a benefit worth sacrificing some food for!

You have to open negotiations with a strong position you can afford to negotiate down from

Picturing that on some stockbroker’s desk

We haven’t found the upper limit yet, but with more research funding we can get closer

The community chores category is really interesting! Do you remember what kinds of work would fall into that? Or have any in mind?

I completely agree! I have much the same sentiment in the section “The work people take on despite the conditions and poor pay”

Thanks! I’ll take a look and see what I can find