Right. But you’re doing it a couple times a year, don’t have benefits like health insurance, risking career ending (and life changing) injuries, and putting any other education or training opportunities on ice while you complete.

If someone offered me 20-30k right now, of course I’d take it.

If they offered me 20-30k and told me this is the only sum of money I would make once or twice a year for the next ten years, might fuck myself up permanently, and I wouldn’t have time to learn how to do anything else to make money during that time period, I’d laugh them out of the room.

Sure, There are people who wouldn’t do that. And Those people are being exploited by a multibillion dollar company.