Ways to Make Money

The following are some of the many things people might pay you for...

Adviews & Reviews
Among the easiest gigs to score are those spent viewing or responding to ads, surveys and products. Many housing providers offer specially-augmented walls, windows and other surfaces for in-home ad viewing in exchange for rent reduction. (Note: These ads will usually be for the corporations and products of District Stakeholders, and never for their competition.)

Ad Viewing

 * Pay	per Day: 5-20 CR
 * Avg	Month: 20 shifts, 250 CR

Market Surveys

 * Pay	per Day: 10-30 CR
 * Avg	Month: 20 shifts, 400 CR

Review Writing/Recording

 * Pay	per Day: 20-50 CR
 * Avg	Month: 15 shifts, 500 CR

Affiliate Marketing
Characters with online followings may attract affiliate marketing deals from companies interested in product placements or commercial messages. In the case of online celebrities and other characters of notoriety, companies will often offer Sponsorship deals. The Sponsor may offer electronic credits, free products, special discounts, access passes, reputation points and/or production expenses, in exchange for your mentioning, using, projecting, displaying, praising, or by other means encouraging your audience to buy their products.

Affiliate Marketing

 * Pay	per Day: 5-20 CR
 * Avg	Month: 300 CR x Fame

AI Training
One of the fastest ways for a company to train its AI on a new area of research is to rely on armies of low-paid online workers who provide answers to training questions, which are then analyzed and reduced to logical patterns by the developing system. Human “trainers” partake in a wide variety of games, quizzes, vocal and auditory exercises, multiple-choice tests and coordination tasks for hours on end, in order to build up a repository of actionable data for the machines. The work is usually quite simple, but tedious.

Aug Walkabout
Hanging out in public spaces with their colorful full-body avatars and voice emulators, Aug Walkabouts are a common and entertaining sight on the streets of the city, most often in the CBD and Corporate Projects. They are most often employed for children's products and entertainment targeted toward teenagers and young adults.

Childcare/Babysitting
Basic childcare gigs can be worth anything from 10 to 100 Credits per hour, and double that if cooking, cleaning or tutorial services are provided. The base pay depends mainly on the Social Rank of the client, of course: the greater the client's social rank, the higher your RP will have to be to get the gig. Corporate class parents often insist on hiring only accredited childcare technicians, with a degree from a CitySystem-recognized training program. The typical childcare gig will be 2d6 hours. 1 out of 36 gigs (i.e., on a roll of double 6s) the contract will be for 2d6 days.

Community Services
Community Service jobs, managed by a subdivision of CitySystem, pay in Citizen Points rather than Credits.

Companionship
The Companionship Industry – a catch-all phrase covering everything from sex workers to rented friends – is one of the major employers of “unskilled” workers in the city. Depending on what's asked for, a professional companion will average somewhere between 10CR and 200CR per hour.

Competitive Games, Sports & Media
TBW

Content Production
A very large percentage of people are content producers. In fact, almost everyone is. After all, people still want to be famous and popular, or for their work to be famous and popular. And even those with no interest in fame still generate tons of content just living their lives, playing their games, and talking with their social networks. Much of that content can be monetized for micro-credits. The folks at MegaMedia and the producers of virtual and augmented worlds are continually on the lookout for new ideas, images, sounds, games, environments and talent. A creative person can do very well for themselves: in a world saturated with media content, attention is the most valuable commodity.

Live News & Breaking Events
If you’re fortunate enough to capture live video of an unfolding media event, celebrity, spectacle, terrorist attack or other object of human interest, you can gain serious Reputation by uploading it to the Social Hubs. Alternately, you may choose to sell it to a MegaMedia division and receive compensation in Credits.

Original Music & Media
In the music industry, either the musicians themselves or a record label own the rights to the music put out. As such, those rights entitle them to receive residual payments every time the music is used for commercial purposes. The issue with this system is knowing who owns these music rights and ensuring that payments are being distributed to the proper parties (and, at the next level down, which performers, songwriters and producers) in addition to what their split of the royalties are.

Enter the world of blockchain smart contracts for the music industry. In this case, a public blockchain could keep track of ownership rights. These rights could be publicly accessible to all, and because public blockchains are append-only (i.e. add only) databases, we know that this information has not been altered. Furthermore, the transfer of royalty payments could be real time and the smart contract could ensure that each time a payment is generated for a given work, the money would be automatically split according to the set terms, and each party’s account would instantly reflect the additional revenue.

Sponsorship

 * Pay	per Release: 100-1000 CR
 * Avg	Month: 250 CR

Crowdsourced Labor
TBW

Courier/Delivery
Delivery gigs will pay from 10 to 100 Credits, depending on the value of the package and the reputation of the courier. For certain illicit packages, couriers with QuietSuits and PID Shields are preferred, and paid extra.

Datamining
DataMiners may utilize any variety of sources and techniques, from high-level firms using customized sensors and AI-enhanced search mechanisms to one-person indies who specialize in the “manual” aggregation and curation of online datasources. The value of this work differs greatly depending on the quality, size, and demand for the data researched.

Food Preparation
For those who have the knack of cooking the food service industry has become highly democratized, allowing small local kitchens to compete with large brand-name restaurants and chains. Your culinary concoctions can be picked up and delivered to customers via ground-based cars or aerial drones.

Gamified Labor
One of the key realizations made by 21st century capitalists was the idea that social networking sites and gamification could be used to monetize people’s attention, dialog and labor at little expense to the company, thereby driving down the costs of product development, quality assurance, and marketing. Today’s CEOs embrace the idea that gamified labor is free labor, and ad exposures are a form of payment. By creating simple interfaces that pushed advertisements, tasks and opportunities for what is non-ironically called “self-expression” (with the typically-unread agreement to release all hold on intellectual property rights), megacorporations were able to adjust to the more fluid economy based on Reputation Points and Guaranteed Basic Incomes.

Many jobs that once required human teams – automobile assembly, for instance – are now handled by a small staff of robots. These robots can be guided and their work assessed by human operators who are, in their own minds and headsets, playing a game for which they receive Reputation Points. The Reputation Economy operates alongside the Fiat Currency Economy, and both are completely electronic. Games are played for both points and coupons; many people pay for their entire existence this way.

Hacking
Companies with large amounts of sensitive data will occasionally hire teams or individuals to test their defenses by attempting to penetrate their security measures. This sort of “penetration testing” may be limited to a specified system, or it might be company-wide, even involving social engineering and operations training. By tradition the team that attempts to break in is referred to as the “red team,” so this process is sometimes called “red teaming.”

News Reporting/Investigative Journalism
Those with the skills and access may choose to sell newsworthy stories or release important documents to media sources in return for credits. The best-known online journalists can make up to 10,000 credits for a single story, but of course the amount offered depends on length, quality and customer. The typical news-hound can make between 100 and 1,000 credits per story, with a bonus of another 100-1,000 if it goes viral. Documents or media that is highly sensitive may be released via a Darknet account, lorem ipsum

Online Personality
Celebrity personalities will require retraining every few months (or DNI-enhanced augmentation) to keep up to speed on slang, youth culture, and techno-neologisms.

Pet Care/Walking
Pet walking gigs will pay 5 to 30 Credits per hour. Extended pet care gigs can be worth 10 to 100 Credits per hour. Corporate class clients often insist on hiring only accredited pet care technicians, with a degree from a CitySystem-recognized training program. The typical gig will be 1d6 hours. Pet care professionals are usually contracted for two to four visits per week.

Protests and Astroturf
Some companies provide crowd-sourced and paid “protest services” and “astroturfing” (aka “sockpuppet posting”) for the highest-bidding causes or lobbies. There is nothing illegal about this: thanks to the ubiquity of crowd-sourcing and the decentralization of so many professions, paid protesters are not even viewed ironically. Outsourcing everything just makes sense. It isn’t unheard of for two companies to be simultaneously involved in astroturf campaigns and protests against each other. Some companies even hire people to protest against themselves (indirectly); this may be done to get attention, to generate controversy, to establish a “strawman” (covering up for some more serious offense), or as a “false flag” inferring an attack by another company.

Quality Assurance
This is a vague category that might contain anything from assembly-line product inspector to software tester to in-store secret shopper. May involve online reviews/ratings or physical participation (“video or it didn't happen”).

Renting Out Tools or Equipment
TBW. Incl 3D printers.

Renting Out Your Vehlcle
If you possess a personal vehicle, you can make money by renting it out as an automated “taxi” while you’re not using it. Requests will be honored subject to your approval of destination and return time.
 * renting a car

Reporting Bugs & Exploits
Users may be reimbursed for reporting bugs they find in software or IoT devices, or for detailed accounts (including logs) of such bugs being exploited. The “bug bounty” for exploits is typically about 1% of the potential losses avoided, and may be paid in various ways depending on company policy: from Electronic Credits to Reputation Points, coupon codes, or simple credit against future purchases. It’s worth noting that the potential reward from reporting a bug pales in comparison to the amount you could make by selling the exploit on the black market, but of course, that would be illegal, and requires access to the Dark Net. See Selling Bugs & Exploits below.

Research Polls/Surveys
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Selling Apps

 * selling access to your app via the Fog

Selling Bugs & Exploits
As mentioned under Reporting Bugs & Exploits above, it’s possible to reap a small fortune in electronic credits for selling an unpatched exploit on the Dark Net. Such sales are, of course, illegal, and must be handled very carefully. Often bogus accounts and a trail of laundering nodes are involved for both buyer and seller; this market is not what you’d call “user-friendly”; it requires a great deal of subterfuge and net experience to even discover how such sales can be made. Most individuals who rely on selling bugs as a means of income are disgruntled veteran programmers or anticorporate activists with a great deal of experience and strong (though unofficial) reputations in the black market economy.

Selling Processor Time

 * purchasing computing power via the Fog
 * providing computing power for the Fog

Selling Trash
In the age of affordable molecular recombination, any existing line between the waste management and material supply industries has been radically blurred. Molecular recycling is the source of much of the stuff that gets 3D-printed today, and recycling centers specializing in various materials exist in many neighborhoods throughout the Sprawls and Corporate Projects. These centers perform two types of transactions: (1) they pay for trash, and (2) they sell recycled raw materials to be used in 3D printers.

For more information on fabrication and raw materials, see the Fabrication section.

ShareShops
Local ShareShops, or co-ops, often need human staff to maintain hardware and software, monitor use and inventory, train or guide users, and secure the premises. A skilled worker can make a pretty good wage, especially if they're able to teach others.

Street Team Marketing
Advertisers are always looking to expand their Brand Awareness, and one of the best ways to do that is by “word of mouth” - a concept which has expanded into a number of alternative formats including interactive signage, AI-driven promotion kiosks and LADAs.. But there is still room in the marketing industry for human-based advertising opportunities such as holo-projected avatar-ads depicting company mascots or spokes celebrities, hovering 'face elements such as floating logos and “Buy Now” buttons, and AR product placement based on social network targeting. Basically, if you hang out in places where the company's target market hangs out, and if you match the look and style of their demographic, there's a fair chance you'll be accepted – or even invited – to join the “street team” for a given consumer product or big-name brand. While you do your spiel, potential customers will be tagged by the system, and you'll receive your commission if and when they make a purchase.

Teaching
BN - Not necessarily standard K-12 teachers -- but people to explain new systems, interfaces, and functionality to other people. This will be everything from corporate training on new systems to consumer training on new AI bots, new avatar customization tools, *etc*. As with anything, some systems will be easy to use, others...not so much, and people will pay someone for a gig to explain to them how to use the fancy new AR interface or game.


 * Pay per Paper Academic

Tech Support and Repair
TBW

Test Subject
TBW

Off-Grid Jobs
In addition, not everyone who has a "job" is employed by a corporation directly; there are plenty small cottage industries that exist with or without the RP economy. These jobs may be performed in exchange for Credits or barter. These things happen all the time: a person who inherited a material recycler hires a bunch of neighborhood kids to do advertising, and makes toys for them; four scrumblies start a band using instruments they scavenged from a derelict arcology and begin writing songs that become locally popular; a person who built a still opens a "speakeasy" serving old fashioned hootch; a master gardener builds a specially-designed underground hothouse, and finds that people will trade good stuff for a ripe tomato.

Resource Zone Workers
TBW

Employment in Space

 * Space	Elevators
 * Space	Tourism
 * Space	Mining
 * Space	Colonies
 * Space	Station Maintenance/Repair
 * Satellite	Maintenance/Repair

The typical asteroid worker serves a year-long stint before being rotated back to Earth.