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[โ€“] WeeSheep@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Train tickets by me cost 4x an hour of minimum wage work. Even if a single person helped per hour, that's more than enough to make it worthwhile compared to a paying job. That's a scam, taking advantage of people's help as a regular living rather than making an honest living.

[โ€“] otp@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 months ago

Train tickets near me have a variable cost depending on how far you're going, but the bus costs about 1/4 or 1/5 of minimum wage per hour...lol

[โ€“] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That's a much more costly train ticket than I was imagining.

I was assuming something like the inverse of that: a quarter of an hour of minimum wage.

That does tip the scale back to scammy.

[โ€“] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Person you responded to was not the original poster. Not sure why they've felt the need to inject extra information that is entirely unrelated to the comment you replied to. Seems pretty scammy to me

[โ€“] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 2 points 6 months ago

I guess I just got scammed.