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RentAHuman lets 500,000 humans work for AI bots with jobs such as counting pigeons for $30 an hour
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this post was submitted on 26 Feb 2026
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Working for an unfeeling entity that only cares about profits and doesn't care about you.
Sounds like working for any large corporation but with better pay.
$30 an hour to poison their data while I'm doing my actual job sounds tight to me idk bruh
They can fire me but they can't not pay me.
Wanna bet?
Yes. I will absolutely take you on that bet. Will you do crypto? I'd prefer Monero. I will provide wallet address and receipts.
I will happily take your money on top of theirs.
Let's say 7:10 dollar for dollar. Will you match every dollar I successfully earn 7:1? I'll pay you 10x what I am owed if I am not paid what owed for my work.
To be clear, if I need to sue to get this income, it may take as long as 36 months in extreme circumstances.
Something tells me you won't take this bet.
Hmm. Chat, what is the ratio of wage theft lawsuits losses to actual wins? How many wins were actually paid in a timely manner?
https://www.nelp.org/app/uploads/2023/07/Workers-Lose-Billions-Unpaid-Wages-Every-Year.pdf
Joke's on them... even if they don't pay it's not like I valued the time I spent on it anyway.
And I certainly didn't do a good job.
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Sounds like you won't take the bet.
They pay you in AI dollars.
What if the AI are better employers than capitalists and we just end up working for them?
Have you read "The Culture"? Because handing over power to the AI Minds is how you get utopian hedonistic gay space socialism.
Do you want utopian hedonistic gay space socialism?
I fucking do.
Humans have managed to kill millions of each other and start a mass extinction. I’m happy to give the machines a chance.
At the moment, they want to start nuclear war. Maybe we need to convince them otherwise, before we consider "giving the machines a chance."
Destroying all nuclear weapons is definitely a prerequisite.
Then you're just left with genocide, like AI did in Gaza
At this point I want a nuclear war. At least I won’t have to wake up early tomorrow.
It's more humane than the overcomplicated shit the Epstein Island people want. Why don't they start already? Cmon Ukraine, get to Moscow...
Maybe we can just nuke Chicago. Nothing of value would be lost.
Maybe it's just me but in this age of MAGA proposing attacking blue urban areas, I find this joke less funny. :/ Sorry.
The gay is optional in The Culture (and sex changes at will), so yeah, I'm in.
I dont care much for the gay part, but as long as it is voluntary i'm game
(Needs some actual fucking ai tho, not probability guessing machines)
Fucking AI? I think pornhub has that....
I always thought that the AI Minds were just his version of benevolent god slaves, in similar fashion the Superman is a bgs in the mainstream culture.
I get most of what you're saying.....but what's the space part? I like living on ground. I mean, I'm not opposed to a new planet. We could travel there. But I'd like to live on a planet.
The 'space' part is just what happens in "The Culture" book series. They tend to stick to gigantic ships or space stations that have ecosystems, mountain ranges, and seas.
Though really it'd be classified as more anarcho-socialism I suppose.
I'm with you, Earth is better than we deserve and we should be focused on the problems we have here.
Such as restoring earths beauty. There is ZERO reason why something absurd like 40% of America is just......parking lots. Or abandoned warehouses. Or abandoned malls.
This may surprise most people, but, this country is naturally beautiful! And it can be again!
We just gotta kick this bad habit we've had for 200+ years of forced slavery, and profit chasing.
Oh, and also, no more pedophile presidents.
Why single out presidents, though? I mean, you had me at "no more pedophile"s 😅🤌🏼
Good point. Although, I'm unclear why you ended it with the anal fisting emoji...
That's if it were facing the other direction, fyi. 😝
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I think you might have a fever? Or dreamed that up.
Plenty of ground on a culture ship. Many of them are Big.
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