When I was in college 10 years ago I did Amazon's Mechanical Turk to pay my way through. One of the things I did to make my life less miserable was to automate a lot of the searching, sifting, and grabbing of jobs (hits.) Bot would only accept jobs that fit my specified time/money ratio, or known hits that paid well and predictably.
Having the experience of using these "gig" side jobs I don't think there's anything wrong with people automating them to make the work less miserable and more lucrative. Frankly, anything but the best paying jobs cost more to do per hour than a federal minimum wage job. Thanks to automation I made around $16/hour (and I also had to pay taxes on that so it wasn't even that good!)
Don't hate the player, hate the game. And the game here is cutthroat and designed to exploit 1099 workers for below market labor cost.
Having the experience of using these "gig" side jobs I don't think there's anything wrong with people automating them to make the work less miserable and more lucrative. Frankly, anything but the best paying jobs cost more to do per hour than a federal minimum wage job. Thanks to automation I made around $16/hour (and I also had to pay taxes on that so it wasn't even that good!)
Don't hate the player, hate the game. And the game here is cutthroat and designed to exploit 1099 workers for below market labor cost.